Berceuse (2020)
Duration: 4:00 minutes
Instrumentation: solo piano
Premiere: January 24, 2023 by Michael Ippolito at the Texas State University Performing Arts Center, San Marcos, TX
Notes:
This short piece is a transcription of the last song from my song cycle A Thousand Tongues, setting the poetry of Stephen Crane.
The text of the song is as follows:
Little birds of the night
Aye, they have much to tell
Perching there in rows
Blinking at me with their serious eyes
Recounting of flowers they have seen and loved
Of meadows and groves of the distance
And pale sands at the foot of the sea
And breezes that fly in the leaves
They are vast in experience
These little birds that come in the night
