Pantoum 2. Sunrise  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
 
SUNRISE
 
The sun is rising in the east,
A bud of color breaks the night:
"Today my joy will never cease;
Out of darkness I bring light."
 
A bud of color breaks the night:
A flower promising to bloom:
"Out of darkness I bring light
To any heart that gives it room."
 
A flower promising to bloom,
To fling its fragrance on the air,
To any heart that gives it room,
Obliterating all despair.
 
To fling its fragrance on the air,
Without regret or backward glance,
Obliterating all despair,
Inviting all the world to dance.
 
Without regret or backward glance,
This flower blossoms into song,
Inviting all the world to dance,
And woe to him who thinks it wrong.
 
This flower blossoms into song:
"Today my joy will never cease;
And woe to him who thinks it wrong."
The sun is rising in the east.
 
 
 © 2007 Margaret Hardy                                                                           Back to Home