THE BURNING HEART ANTHOLOGY III

THE BURNING HEART III Songs for Baritone and Piano

Michael-Thomas Foumai

Michael-Thomas Foumai

THE BURNING HEART III Songs for Baritone and Piano

Translated by Kenneth Rexroth 1. Roads of love (0:50) 2. A girl I saw only once (0:40) 3. The colored leaves (1:20) 4. A girl who is not here (3:30)

Program Note The Burning Heart song cycle was composed for the 2012 Staunton Music Festival. The work consists of settings of Japanese love poems (Haiku) translated

by Kenneth Rexroth and are in four large volumes, each volume composed for a different voice type and piano. The poems express in very little words, young and mature love, conveying intimacy, sensuality and angst.

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1.

May those who are born after me Never travel such roads of love.

- Hitomaro

2.

When I see the first New moon, faint in the twilight, I think of the moth eyebrows Of a girl I saw only once.

- Yakamochi

3.

In the Autumn Mountains The colored leaves are falling.

If I could hold them back, I could still see her.

- Hitomaro

4.

In the empty mountains The leaves of the bamboo grass Rustle in the wind.

I think of a girl Who is not here.

- Hitomaro

for the Staunton Music Festival

THE BURNING HEART III Songs for Baritone and Piano

Text Translations KENNETH REXROTH

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