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I Like That You...(Tsvetaeva)
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Composition for Soprano and Strings, in Russian.
jazz classical instrumental vocal opera orchestra chamber ballet
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Composer for large-scale performance work, ballet and opera. Have written music for classical theatrical productions of Shakespeare, ("The Tempest," "The Twelft
Loren Lieberman is a native of Denver, Colorado, now living on the West Coast in California, where he is best known for his work as an actor in Classical and Shakespearean Theatre. He has a degree from Sonoma State University in Theatre Arts, and has been an Honor's Music Composition Student at the College of Marin, Santa Rosa Junior College, and at Sonoma State University. He has won an award for composition from the Redwood Empire Music Association. He has recently completed an opera in Russian, based on the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "Cancer Ward", (and of the same name), and is currently working on his fourth opera, based on the Classical Tragedy by Sophocles, "Oedipus the King," with a libretto in Ancient Greek. His interest in languages has shaped much of his artistic temperment, and he is self taught in Russian and Sanskrit, and has hopes to begin his next opera, Shakespeare's, "Romeo and Juliet," in Hindi.
Song Info
Genre
Classical • Opera
Charts
Peak #69
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Marina Tsvetaeva/Masaru Yonemitsu
Rights
adhikapokoya 2010
Uploaded
September 25, 2010
Track Files
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MP3 1.8 MB • 128 kbps • 2:00
Story behind the song
A very popular Russian poem. The pictures of Marina Tsvetaeva associated with her media, show a dowdy, unattractive woman. Only after I began to examine her life through some of the Russian web sites, that I came across her pictures before the ravages of starvation, deprivation, and suffering took their inevitable toll on a being. A very attractive woman! If Marilyn Monroe wrote world class poetry,and suffered tragic loss of a child by the time she was 23, one might begin to appreciate the dedication of the followers and admirers of Marina Tsvetaeva.
Lyrics
I like that you suffer not from me, I like that it is not from you I suffer, The planet is firm and we will never see It turn beneath the feet less firm and tougher. I like that I am let to seem so bad - clumsy with and no need to play with phrases, No need to blush when sleeves are slightly met With sudden, overwhelming, breathless blazes.  And even more, I like that you embrace Another woman calmly as I'm watching, Don't threaten me that hell will be my place For it is not your face my kiss is scorching, That you, my tenderest, will never call my name, My tender name, to spell my image bringing; We'll never hear halleluyah's fame, Since not for us the choir will be singing. I thank you earnestly with both my hand and heart That unaware, indeed, you do love me; For meetings rare, sunsets watched apart, For midnight calmness soaring above me, For all the sun which ours might be, For moonlit walks I share with the other, For that alas! you suffer not from me, For that alas! it's not from you I suffer.
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