Sep 12 2008
Clint Edwards’ Music Mondays: August
“Farewell”
Music composed, orchestrated, and recorded by CLINT EDWARDS
Text by LORD BYRON from “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
I’m starting a new project recording and producing new song demos for posting on my website. My goal is to have a new piece posted on the first Monday of each month.
Coincidentally, I’m beginning things with a “farewell”…or so to speak. “Farewell” is a song that I composed for my good friend, soprano, Lauren Bradley. She premiered the song in New York this past January. It’s apropos that I’m presenting this piece now, since Lauren has just moved to Germany to pursue her operatic career. I wish her great success and will miss her. Enjoy the music!
My task is done-my song hath ceased-my theme
Has died into an echo;
The torch shall be extinguished which hath lit
My midnight lamp-and the glow
Which in my Spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been-
A sound which makes us linger,-yet-farewell!
Ye! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene
Which is my last-if in your memories dwell
A thought which once was mine-if on ye swell
A single recollection-not in vain
And in that image shall forever tell-
Farewell! with me alone may rest the pain,
If such there were-with you, the Moral of my Strain.
Farewell!