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Suite pour le po​è​te maudit, III. Coucher de Soleil

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Suite pour le poète maudit (2012) was written for the Lunar Ensemble as part of their Pierrot Centenary Project.

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Coucher de Soleil (Albert Giraud)

Le soleil s’est ouvert les veines
Sur un lit de nuages roux:
Son sang, par la bouche des trous,
S’éjacule en rouges fontaines.

Les rameaux convulsifs des chênes
Flagellent les horizons fous:
Le soleil s’est ouvert les veines
Sur un lit de nuages roux.

Comme, après les hontes romaines,
Un débauché, plein de dégoûts,
Laissant, jusqu’aux sales égouts,
Saigner ses artères malsaines,
Le soleil s’est ouvert les veines!

Sunset (Roughly translated by the composer)

The sun has opened its veins
On a bed of rust-colored clouds:
His blood, through the wounds,
Spurts in red fountains.

The convulsing branches of oaks
Whip against the mad horizons
The sun has opened its veins
On a bed of rust-colored clouds.

Just like after the Roman orgies,
A debauched man, full of self-loathing,
Letting his sickened arteries
Bleed into the filthy gutter,
The sun has opened its veins!

credits

from chamber, track released November 13, 2012
Performed by the Lunar Ensemble at SUNY Fredonia.

Stephanie Ray (flute/piccolo)
Gleb Kanasevich (clarinets)
Martiros Shakhzadyan (violin)
Peter Kibbe (cello)
John Wilson (piano)
Terry Sweeney (percussion)

Danielle Buonaiuto (soprano)

Gemma New (conductor)

Tim Bausch (recording engineer)

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natalie draper Washington D.C., D.C.

Natalie received her undergraduate degree in music from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and her master’s degree in composition from University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Natalie is currently pursuing her DMA degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She is affiliated with ASCAP. ... more

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