GOD OF THE 4 WINDS
STRING QUARTET
INSTRUMENTATION:
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Cello
M
LEE MITCHELL
ABOUT:
The sixth of Lee Mitchell's Six Poems for String Quartet, the undulating motion of God of the 4 Winds is only interrupted by sudden, rhythmic suspense and tension.
Once, beloved, my lust for you was as of Bacchus born. A desired ovum, a hymn for Baal. Where now the blood-red passion that bore me through woeful spans of time, on Pegasus wings, across life's violet vault of Heaven?
Did you not see, as I, Cupid's bow decaying in the dust? Wrapped in a shroud of gossamer, where Venus mourned her son in floral gown, whispering at the body: "Breathe beloved. Breathe!" Yet never more to breathe, not upon this eager sphinx again. Do you not recall an eastern sun, a massing yolk of gold, crawling like a wounded phoenix above a broken-dreamed horizon? Do you remember not the funeral pyre, heralding the death of lust, the charred bones upon the altar, the ash upon the stone? And beloved, sadness is but the lost you youth in man, and lust as of Bacchus born, who sings to the past… in soft words drenched with madness.
My ship broke upon the rocks but now the mast is straight again, the torn sail resown.
God of the 4 winds stroke a wounded heart, once more, across the salty deeps of love and life.
DURATION: 4'18"
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First printing, May 2023
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Saltando = 100 Violin I Violin II Viola Cello rit.rit. = 95 11 8 17 15 Poem Six of “Six Poems” GOD OF THE 4 WINDS for String Quartet Copyright © 2022 T.U.X. People’s Music Publishing Company, LLC. International Copyright Secured. Printed and engraved in the U.S.A. All Rights Reserved including Public Performance. Learn more about all of our amazing titles at Tuxpeoplesmusic.com Score Lee Mitchell 2021 SE0074f-01 PERUSALCOPY legaluserequirespurchase
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