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    DIRAIT-ON Morten Lauridsen Treble Chorus, Secular (Hic) for Treble Chorus and Piano “ia BY ocezesrs { taLieougo «US. 90 CORPORATION waves, wens PSSFMNUSIC New York * Homburg Dirait-on ‘Abandon entouré d’abandon, Abandon surrounding abandon, tendresse touchant aux tendresses. tenderness touching tenderness... C'est ton intérieur qui sans cesse Your oneness endlessly se caresse, dirait-on; caresses itself, so they say; se caress en soi-méme, self-caressing par son proper reflet éclairé ‘through its own clear reflection. Ainsi tu inventes le théme Thus you invent the theme du Narcisse exaucé, of Narcissus fulfilled. Rainer Mara Rilke, from Les Rasee English translation by Barbara and Erica Mubl In addition to his vast output of German poetry, Rilke (18751926) wrote nearly 400 poems in French. His poems on roses struck me as especially charming, filled with gorgeous lyricism, deftly crafted and elegant in their imagery. These exquisite pocms are primarily light, joyous and playful, and the musical settings are designed (o enhance these beauty and sensuousness. Distinct melodic and harmonic materials recur throughout the eycle, specially between Rilke’s poignant Conire Qui, Rose (set as a wistful nocturne) and his moving La Rose Compliéte. The final piece, Dirait-on, is composed as # tuneful chanson populaire, ot folksong, that weaves together two melodic ideas first heard in fragmentary form in preceding ‘movements Les Chansons des Roses was composed for Portland, Oregon's superb professional chamber chorus, Choral Cross-Ties, conducted by Bruce Browne, who gave the premicre on April 23, 1993, i Dirait-on is published in versions for mixed chorus (SATB), men’s chorus (TTBB) and treble ‘chorus. I also exists as a song for high ot medium voice and piano, high voice and guiter, and as a

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