That the Night Come (soprano and piano) - Digital (Not Printable)

for soprano and pianoSongs1. He Wishes his Beloved were Dead2. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water3. The White Birds4. These are the Clouds5. Her Anxiety6. That the Night ComeOptionsAll six songs may be performed as a set. Other options include all but song 5; songs 1,2 and 3; or individual songs 1, 3 or 5.For Dawn Upshaw Composer noteThat the Night Come is a large work especially written for Dawn Upshaw and the Crash Ensemble, consisting of six settings of poems by W.B. Yeats. Despite Yeats’s desire that composers should not really contradict his curious tone-deaf sing-song way of reading his poems, I have been drawn already a number of times to setting his words to music. His repeating obsessions with unattainable love (or at least unsustainable love), his longing for the fullness of experience, his anger at fleeting happiness and the certainty of time’s ravage and death are obsessions that I share. There’s something about both the direct and ambiguous honesty of Yeats’s po