Even the Stars Will Wonder

Songs of longing, loss and love

Poet/Lyricist:

Rose Ausländer

The stark and compelling words Rose Ausländer, a survivor of World War II's Czernowitz ghetto, are set to here music with delicacy, ferocity and compassion.

These three songs, scored for soprano, percussion, piano/celeste, harp and strings, are the central movements of a larger work for soprano and full orchestra, So Many Corners.

Movements:
1. So Many Corners
2. Our Unforgettable Earth
3. Even the Stars Will Wonder

Item	Instrumentation/Voicing	Duration	Level	Audio	Peruse	Delivery Method (Print vs. Digital)	Price	Quantity
SEA-040-05	Soprano, chamber orchestra: perc, pno/cel, hp, strings - Full Score	8'00"	A	https://seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/so_many_corners-movement_3-love.mp3		Sheet Music	$30.00	Quantity
SEA-040-06	Soprano, chamber orchestra: perc, pno/cel, hp, strings - Instrumental Parts	8'	A			Sheet Music	$0.00

Even the Stars Will Wonder

Poems by Rose Ausländer
English translation by Ingeborg Wald

I. So Many Corners

It is said
the ocean is round
the earth is round
the sky is round
Can
so much roundness
have so many corners

II. Bereft

Bereft of our land
our familiar things
Not another word about it
Our dead
intact
live with us
We share with them
our unforgettable
earth

III. Love

We will find each other again
in the lake
you as water
I as lotus blossom
You will carry me
I will drink you
We will belong to each other
in everyone's eyes
Even the stars
will wonder:
here two people
have changed back
into their dream
that has chosen them

Performers:

So Many Corners (soprano and piano)

Premiere: Susan Craft and Genevieve Jones (Madison, WI)
Carol Haywood and Milton Peckarsky (Stevens Point and Milwaukee, WI)

So Many Corners (soprano and orchestra)
National Orchestral Association (Reading and Recording) / Mark Stringer (New York City, NY)

An Ark of Stars
Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra (Reading and Recording) / Morrie Brand. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)

Even the Stars Will Wonder
Premiere: Festival Chamber Orchestra / Elizabeth Alexander (Ithaca, NY)
Charleston Symphony Orchestra / David Stahl (Charleston, SC)

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Basic Genres:

Vocal