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Three Songs     I.  II. III.
(total duration 6')
 
 

III. Echo

for Solo Soprano, Violin, and Piano

duration 1½'



Composed for: Dora Ohrenstein and Mary Rowell
World Premiere: 1985, Symphony Space, New York

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Dora Ohrenstein, Soprano; Mary Rowell, Violin;
Elizabeth Wright, Piano
(live recording of World Premiere)
(460k mp3)

First Page of Score

 




 
Text:
 
 
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy cell
By slow Maeander's margent green,
And in the violet imbroider'd vale
Where the lovelorn nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair
That likest thy Narcissus are?
O if thou have
hid them in som flowry Cave,
tell me but where
Sweet Queen of Parly, Daughter of the Sphear,
So maist thou be translated to the skies,
And give resounding grace to all Heav'ns harmonies.

                                                 John Milton (from "Comus")