Going to read more of Ma’ame Pelagie then sleep.
So far no barking dog tonight, so that’s good.
Good-by—because I love you.
How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! how delicious! She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known.
The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet, and coiled like serpents around her ankles. She walked out. The water was chill, but she walked on. The water was deep, but she lifted her white body and reached out with a long, sweeping stroke. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
She went on and on. She remembered the night she swam far out, and recalled the terror that seized her at the fear of being unable to regain the shore. She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning and no end.
Her arms and legs were growing tired.
She thought of Leonce and the children. They were a part of her life. But they need not have thought that they could possess her, body and soul. How Mademoiselle Reisz would have laughed, perhaps sneered, if she knew! “And you call yourself an artist! What pretensions, Madame! The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.”
Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her.
“Good-by—because I love you.” He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him—but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone.
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father’s voice and her sister Margaret’s. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.
The final paragraphs from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Click the link in my previous text post at 4pm EST today to see my performance with the Yale School of Music / Norfolk Chamber Music Festival of the premiere of Loren Loiacono’s setting of this text.
For those who always ask about seeing one of my performances:
Click the link above (or access it from norfolkmusic.org) at 4pm EST today (August 18).
I’ve been in Norfolk, Connecticut, this week working with Simon Carrington and 23 other professional singers from around the world at the Yale Summer School of Music / Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Chamber Choir & Conducting Workshop. The culmination of our work is a concert this Saturday featuring works from the Renaissance to today.
I’m posting the program below, but one of my favorite pieces is a world premiere by Yale composition student Loren Loiacono. It’s a setting of text taken from the last few paragraphs of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
Lieto Godea | Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1555-1612)
Peccantem me quotidie | Cristobal de Morales (c. 1500-1553)
Venite Populi, Venite | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1778)
with string quartet and organ continuoLover’s Recantation | Thomas Arne (1770-1778)
with soprano Jessica Petrus, flute, strings, and harpsichord continuoSehnsucht, Op. 112, No. 1 (arr. Kugler) | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
with pianoUri Tsafon (2002) | John Christian Rommereim (b. 1959)
with string quartet and pianoThe Awakening (2012) | Loren Loiacono (b. 1989)
with soprano Jessica Petrus, flute (doub. piccolo), clarinet (doub. bass clarinet), horn, trombone, percussion, and string quartetPsalm 148 (2008) | Judith Weir (b. 1954)
with tromboneSong for Billie Holiday [from Afro-American Fragments (2009)] | William Averitt (b. 1948)
with four-hand pianoAesop’s Fables (2008) | Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)
with piano
- The Hare and the Tortoise
- The Mountain in labour
- The Fox and the Grapes
- The North Wind and the Sun
- The Goose and the Swan
(Source: capitalismconcarne)
For those who always ask about seeing one of my performances:
Click the link above (or access it from norfolkmusic.org) at 4pm EST this Saturday afternoon (August 18).
I’ve been in Norfolk, Connecticut, this week working with Simon Carrington and 23 other professional singers from around the world at the Yale Summer School of Music / Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Chamber Choir & Conducting Workshop. The culmination of our work is a concert this Saturday featuring works from the Renaissance to today.
I’m posting the program below, but one of my favorite pieces is a world premiere by Yale composition student Loren Loiacono. It’s a setting of text taken from the last few paragraphs of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
Lieto Godea | Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1555-1612)
Peccantem me quotidie | Cristobal de Morales (c. 1500-1553)
Venite Populi, Venite | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1778)
with string quartet and organ continuoLover’s Recantation | Thomas Arne (1770-1778)
with soprano Jessica Petrus, flute, strings, and harpsichord continuoSehnsucht, Op. 112, No. 1 (arr. Kugler) | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
with pianoUri Tsafon (2002) | John Christian Rommereim (b. 1959)
with string quartet and pianoThe Awakening (2012) | Loren Loiacono (b. 1989)
with soprano Jessica Petrus, flute (doub. piccolo), clarinet (doub. bass clarinet), horn, trombone, percussion, and string quartetPsalm 148 (2008) | Judith Weir (b. 1954)
with tromboneSong for Billie Holiday [from Afro-American Fragments (2009)] | William Averitt (b. 1948)
with four-hand pianoAesop’s Fables (2008) | Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)
with piano
- The Hare and the Tortoise
- The Mountain in labour
- The Fox and the Grapes
- The North Wind and the Sun
- The Goose and the Swan
(Source: capitalismconcarne)
For those who always ask about seeing one of my performances:
Click the link above (or access it from norfolkmusic.org) at 4pm EST this Saturday afternoon.
I’ve been in Norfolk, Connecticut, this week working with Simon Carrington and 23 other professional singers from around the world at the Yale Summer School of Music / Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Chamber Choir & Conducting Workshop. The culmination of our work is a concert this Saturday featuring works from the Renaissance to today.
I’m posting the program below, but one of my favorite pieces is a world premiere by Yale composition student Loren Loiacono. It’s a setting of text taken from the last few paragraphs of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
Lieto Godea | Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1555-1612)
Peccantem me quotidie | Cristobal de Morales (c. 1500-1553)
Venite Populi, Venite | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1778)
with string quartet and organ continuoLover’s Recantation | Thomas Arne (1770-1778)
with soprano Jessica Petrus, flute, strings, and harpsichord continuoSehnsucht, Op. 112, No. 1 (arr. Kugler) | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
with pianoUri Tsafon (2002) | John Christian Rommereim (b. 1959)
with string quartet and pianoThe Awakening (2012) | Loren Loiacono (b. 1989)
with soprano Jessica Petrus, flute (doub. piccolo), clarinet (doub. bass clarinet), horn, trombone, percussion, and string quartetPsalm 148 (2008) | Judith Weir (b. 1954)
with tromboneSong for Billie Holiday [from Afro-American Fragments (2009)] | William Averitt (b. 1948)
with four-hand pianoAesop’s Fables (2008) | Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)
with piano
- The Hare and the Tortoise
- The Mountain in labour
- The Fox and the Grapes
- The North Wind and the Sun
- The Goose and the Swan
"The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation."
The Awakening, Kate Chopin (via cuito)
I need to re-read this.
(Source: quote-book)
