Pantoum 1. Sunset   poem by Margaret Hardy   music by Glenn Hardy

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Recorded January 19, 2008 at Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown, NY.    Chamber Music Westchester, Joyce Balint, music director
 
Erika Sunnegardh, soprano
New York Piano Quartet:
    Laura Hamilton, violin
    Ariel Rudiakov, viola
    David Heiss, cello
    John Churchwell, piano
 
SUNSET
 
The sun is setting in the west,
An artist's pigments stain the sky,
Their gentle colors give us rest:
I cannot, will not tell you why.
 
An artist's pigments stain the sky,
Brightly blooming flowers of night;
I cannot, will not tell you why,
Their colors give us such delight.
 
Brightly blooming flowers of night;
Growing in an artist's dream,
Their colors give us such delight,
These flowers are not what they seem.
 
Growing in an artist's dream,
In some lovely skyward garden,
These flowers are not what they seem,
They who never beg our pardon.
 
In some lovely skyward garden,
They dance, and dream, and laugh and bloom,
They who never beg our pardon,
And fill with scent our secret rooms.
 
They dance, and dream, and laugh and bloom,
Their gentle colors bring us rest:
And fill with scent our secret rooms.
The sun is setting in the west.
 
 
 © 2007 Margaret Hardy                                                                           Back to Home