21 Mar Magna Mors

Posted at 20:51h in vocal music, voice + piano, works by

voice & piano [2’]; words Corrado Paina; 2024.

Commissioner: George Elliott Clarke with the assistance of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Premiere: Rebecca Cuddy, mezzo-soprano with pianist Helen Becqué, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, May 23, 2024 

 

MAGNA MORS

How can you be doubtful and let life lock the door to freedom
Let death in
She is beautiful

standing there
with that dress no wife will ever wear She has chosen you and you linger?

— Corrado Paina