Elégie de Marie for alto and guitar (mp3) is currently unavailable

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Alto Voice,Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.1059865 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century. Full Performance. Duration 374. David Warin Solomons #4890829. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1059865). (For the Score enter this reference in the SheetMusicPlus search box) : S0.22038 A song of youthful angst for alto and guitar. Poem by Marie Keyser. Performed here by the composer. Elégie (Elegy) was composed after a poem of adolescence by Marie Keyser. The original poem is as follows (with my translation below) Entends mon chant d'exil et comme avec patience ensevelie en terre hostile je désapprends la respiration l'instant et toute presence humaine du royaume au bord du temps ils m'ont arrachée de l'aube et maintenant le temps sévit le mal de terre est profond jamais la nuit n'atteint l'aurore inachevés abolis nous reposons mais je me souviens entends mon chant d'exil et le déchirement au royaume lointain au bord du temps s'accomplit la naissance et le premier vertige de voir d'entendre etdde toucher le monde ploie l'adolescence alanguie enclose en elle l'île à fleur de mer au chant d'écume éphemère et renouvelé et l'envol s'accomplit vers le point d'aube où le premier chant indécis de la grive musicienne délie les sources dormeuses, le vent et l'envie d'aller les arbres vont en cortège devant entends mon chant de retour et le cheminement.... mais pourquoi l'exil revient-il, briser l'allégeance condamner les jardins et les demeures et dicter à nouveau l'errance j'entends par mes déchirures les rumeurs humaines et l'arrêt de mort de l'instant convalescent ils m'ont arrachée de l'aube.... tu dis que le château entre les bouleaux frêles regarde la vallée entière de l'aube a la nuit et déjà ériges la tour où dormir ou demeurer où vivre déliée de la mélancholie mais les fleurs dorment sous la terre semées par milliers dans le jardin balsamaire. (c) Marie Keyser [English translation] Hear my song of exile and how, patiently, buried in hostile earth I learn how to forget breath the moment and human presence ... from the kingdom on the borders of time they have ripped me from the dawn and now time is raging ... I long to return to earth Night will never reach the dawn Incomplete, wiped out, we rest but I remember .... hear my song of exile, how it tears me in the far off kingdom on the border of time the birth is completed and we first dizzily hear, see and touch the world languishing we grow towards the adult but we are enclosed in ourselves the island just touching the sea singing the renewed song of the foam that lasts but a day and fly toward the first hint of dawn where the first uncertain song of the thrush releases the sleepy water springs, the wind and the desire to go a consort of trees goes before them hear my song of return and the journeying.... but why does exile come back, breaking the allegiance condeming the gardens, the dwelling places, and ordering me once more me to wander I hear, through the tearing, human sounds and the deadly stopping of the moment of recovery they have ripped me from the dawn.... you say that the manor house between the fragile birch trees looks over the whole valley from dawn to night and already you build up the tower where I may sleep or stay where. This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).