Fahad Siadat
A Quiet Room For four part men’s chorus
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Lyrics There is a room With barren walls And a bird lost in frenzied thought And the sun through the window Shaking dreams. I know this room And bird And sun But I forget the dream in the early light. I see you lonely as a bird Waiting in a room Waiting for the sun. And there will always be a room And a bird And the sun. There will always be that. _________________________ Program Note This piece came from an experience a friend shared with me early one morning. I remember her writing to tell me about a bird being trapped in her bedroom, but should couldn’t figure out how it got there since she had screens on her windows. She said it felt surreal, like a dream, and also filled with her an intense sadness and sense of longing. Went she asked me what I thought it meant, we went back and forth, our writing becoming increasingly abstract as we tried to capture an event that, in our minds, took on a symbolic a meaning. This text is taken from those exchanges. -Fahad Siadat
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A Quiet Room For Sarah Curtiss Fahad Siadat
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