Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: Colloque Sentimental
• Composer:  David Warin Solomons
• Voices:  AAA
• Sheet Music:   dwsolo.musicaneo.com/shee...  
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary
• Colloque Sentimental
  English version by S N Solomons after the poem by Paul Verlaine
  music for three altos a cappella, composed and performed by
  David W Solomons
  
  Colloque Sentimental - (translation by S N Solomons after...  moreColloque Sentimental
  English version by S N Solomons after the poem by Paul Verlaine
  music for three altos a cappella, composed and performed by
  David W Solomons
  
  Colloque Sentimental - (translation by S N Solomons after Paul Verlaine)
  
  In the age-old park, treading the icy grass
  Two lone forms ere a while went past.
  
  Their eyes are dead, their lips are soft and moist,
  Almost inaudible their voice.
  
  In the cold lonely park, pacing the grass,
  Twin lonely spectres have evoked the past.
  
  "Dost thou recall our ecstasy of old?"
  "Why would you think I should recall?"
  
  "And at my name does thy heart pulse and grow?
  And in thy dreams seest thou my soul?" "No!"
  
  "Those lovely days of unheard bliss and free ...
  We fused our lips as one!" "Ah, that might be."
  
  "How blue the heavens and our hope how high!"
  "Hope has fled vanquished to the sombre sky."
  
  And so they wandered in the unkempt grass,
  And night alone heard all the words that passed.  less