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Mar022012
I Lie in This Coffin
Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 at 8:43PM
2004 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello/piano
Poem by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever,translated by C.K. Williams
Song 1 of The Seed of Dream
Commissioned by Music of Remembrance, Seattle, WA.
Click here to see a YouTube video from a live performance at St. Katerine Catheral in Vilnius, Lithuania on Jan 27, 2009. It features baritone Stein Skjervold (Norway), cellist Tom Collingwood (UK) and pianist Sonata Zuboviene (Lithuania).
Errata
Piano, Left Hand, m. 54-56 — should be up 8va