Jessica Lee
collaborative piano
assisted by:
Susan Adams, soprano
Charlie Rasmussen, cello
Graduate Recital
Saturday, November 10, 2012
5:30 pm
Recital Hall, Music Building
Program
from Four Songs for Soprano, Cell, and Piano André Previn
Mercy (b. 1929)
Stones
Shelter
Sonata No.5, Op.102, No.2 (1815) Ludwig Von Beethoven
Allegro con brio (1770-1827)
Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto-attaca
Allegro-Allegro fugato
Songs and Dances of Death (1875-1877) Modest Mussorgsky
Lullaby (1839-1881)
Serenade trans. Sergey Rybin
Trepak
Commander
Jessica Lee is a student of Dr. James Douglass
________
In partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the
Master of Music in Performance
André Previn:
Four Songs
Text by Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
Mercy
I could watch
heads
turn from the traveler’s look
the camera’s probe
bear the purity of their
shame
hear mute desolations in syllables
ancient as
death.
I could do these things
if
only if only
I knew that when milk
spills
and hearts stop
underheel
some small thing gone
chill
is right
to warm toward a touch because
mercy
lies in wait
like a shore
Mercy
mercy
like a shore.
Stones
I don’t need no man
telling me I ain’t one.
My trigger finger strong
as his on a shot gun.
Buttercake and roses smooth
stones in my bed.
Handmade quilts cover
stones in my bed.
I don’t need no man
telling me I ain’t one.
My backbone ain’t like his
but least I got one.
High-heeled slippers break
stones in my bed.
Games played at night trick
stones in my bed.
Stones in my bed.
Stones.
I don’t need no man
telling me.
Shelter
In this soft place
Under your wings
I will find shelter
From ordinary things.
Here are the mountains
I want to scale
Amazon rivers
I’m dying to sail.
Here the eyes of the forest
I can hold in a stare
And smile the movement
Of Medusa’s green hair
In this soft place
Under your wings
I will find shelter
From ordinary things.
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Pale morning looks in the window...
With crying, anguishing and loving
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I'll sit instead of you.
You've failed to pacify the child.
I'll sing sweeter than you" --
"Quiet! My child rushes and struggles,
Tormenting my soul!"
"Well, with me he'll soon be appeased.
Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby." --
"The cheeks are fading, the breath in
weakening... Be quiet, I beg you!" --
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quieten, Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby." --
"Be gone, you damned thing!
With your tenderness you'll kill my joy!" --
"No, a peaceful sleep I'll conjure up for the
baby. Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby." --
"Have pity, wait at least for a moment with
finishing your awful song!" --
"Look, he fell asleep with my quiet singing.
Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby."
Serenade
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Trembling darkness of spring.
The sick girl takes in, with her head
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Life beckons towards pleasures,
Meanwhile under the window in the
midnight silence Death sings a serenade:
"In the gloom of captivity, severe and
stifling,
Your youth is fading away;
A mysterious knight, with magic powers
I'll free you up.
Stand up, look at yourself: with beauty
Your translucent face is shining,
Your cheeks are rosy, with a wavy plait
Your figure is entwined, like with a cloud.
The blue radiance of your piercing eyes
Is brighter than skies and fire.
Your breath flutters with the midday heat ...
You have seduced me.
Your hearing is captured with my serenade,
Your voice called for a knight,
The knight has come for the ultimate
reward;
The hour of ecstasy has arrived.
Your body is tender, your trembling is
ravishing...
Oh, I'll suffocate you in my strong
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Forest and glades, no one is around.
A snow-storm is crying and groaning,
It feels as in the gloom of the night
The Evil One is burying someone;
Hush, it is so!
In the darkness Death is hugging and
caressing an old man,
With the drunkard She is dancing a trepak,
While singing a song into his ear:
"Oh, my little wretched man,
Got drunk, stumbled along the road,
But the witch-blizzard has risen furiously,
And driven you from the glade into the
dense forest.
Tortured with anguish and need,
Lie down, curl up and fall asleep, my dear!
I'll warm you up with snow, my darling,
And stir up a great game around you.
Shake up the bed, you blizzard-swan!
Hey, get going, start chanting, you weather
A fairytale, that could last all night,
So that the drunkard could fall asleep
soundly!
Hey you, forests, skies and clouds,
Gloom, wind and fleeting snow,
Wreathe into a shroud, snowy and fluffy;
With it I'll cover our old man, like a baby...
Sleep, my little friend, happy wretch,
The summer has come and blossomed!
Above the fields the sun is laughing and
sickles roam,
The song hovers around; the doves are
flying about..."
The Commander
The battle is thundering,
the armour is shining,
Copper cannons are roaring,
The troops are running,
the horses are rushing
And red rivers are flowing.
The midday is blazing –
people are fighting,
The sun is declining –
the fight is stronger,
The sunset is fading away –
but the enemies
Are still battling more fierce and hateful.
And night has fallen on the battlefield.
The armies have parted in the darkness...
Everything has fallen quiet, and in the
night's mist
The groans have risen to the heavens.
Then, illuminated by moonlight,
On her battle horse,
Shining with the whiteness of her bones,
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Like a field marshal she circled around
The place of battle,
And having ridden to the top on the hill,
looked around, stopped, smiled....
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Roared her fateful voice:
"The battle is finished! I won over everyone!
You all submitted before me, soldiers!
Life has made you quarrel,
I have reconciled you!
Stand up as one for the parade, corpses!
Pass in front of me in a pompous march,
I want to count my troops;
Then deposit your bones into the earth,
It is sweet to rest from life in the ground!
Year after year will pass,
And even the memory of you will
disappear.
I will not forget and loudly above you
Will hold a feast at the midnight hour!
With a heavy dance
I'll trample
The raw earth, so that the realm of the
grave
Your bones will never be able to leave,
So that you'll never rise from the ground!"