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…forbidding mourning…

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Hear It On Music For My Love, Vol. One

This short work is a paraphrase on the second of my two Valedictions for cello and piano (2000), which can be heard on TOCC-CD150. The cello movement was a response to John Donne’s poem of 1611–12 A Valediction: forbidding mourning, in which the poet typifies the parting of true lovers thus:

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.

My new work for string orchestra is an airy expansion of a single phrase from the older piece; a free polyphonic fantasia, cast in a simple A-B-A form.

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