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The Songs of Morten Lauridsen: Four Mixed Duets

On August 2, 2018 a concert of songs composed by Morten Lauridsen was presented at the San Juan Community Theater on San Juan Island, Washington. Performers included Jeremy Huw Williams, Maria Lindsey and Paula Fan. The composer introduced each work prior to its performance. The program alternated solo songs and mixed duets, composed over a span of 53 years on poems by Dana Gioia, Pablo Neruda, Howard Moss, James Agee, Rainer Maria Rilke, Harold Witt and Lauridsen plus the solo version of O Magnum Mysterium. This video includes four mixed duets: Dirait-on Prayer Ya eres mia Sure on this Shining Night Dirait-on (So They Say – Rainer Maria Rilke) Abandon surrounding abandon, tenderness touching tenderness... Your oneness endlessly caresses itself, so they say... Self-caressing through its own clear reflection. Thus you invent the theme of Narcissus fulfilled. Prayer (Dana Gioia) Echo of the clocktower, footstep in the alleyway, sweep of the wind sifting the leaves. Jeweller of the spiderweb, connoisseur of autumn’s opulence, blade of lightning harvesting the sky. Keeper of the small gate, choreographer of entrances and exits, midnight whisper traveling the wires. Seducer, healer, deity or thief, I will see you soon enough – in the shadow of the rainfall, in the brief violet darkening a sunset – but until then I pray watch over him as a mountain guards its covert ore and the harsh falcon its flightless young. Poem Copyright by Dana Gioia. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Ya eres mia (Now You Are Mine – Pablo Neruda) Now you are mine. Rest with your dream inside my dream. Love, sorrow, labor now must sleep as well. The night revolves on its invisible wheels And joined to me you are as pure as sleeping amber. No one else, my love, will ever sleep in my dreams. You go, we go together through the waters of time No one else will journey through the shadows with me, Only you, eternally alive, eternal sun, eternal moon. Your hands unfold their delicate grip, Their gentle gestures falling aimlessly, Your hands close on themselves like two gray wings, While I follow the waters you bear which bear me away: The night, the world, and the wind unfold their destiny, No longer with you, I am nothing but your dream. Tranlation by Dana Gioia. Poem copyright by Fundacion Pablo Neruda. Used by permission. Sure on this Shining Night (James Agee) Sure on this shining night Of starmade shadows round, Kindness must watch for me This side the ground. The late year lies down the north. All is healed, all is health. High summer holds the earth. Hearts all whole. Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder Wand’ring far alone Of shadows on the stars. Copyright 1968 by The James Agee Trust. Used by permission. www.mortenlauridsen.net