Santa Fe Songs

Song Cycle by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022)

1. Santa Fe

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  • by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "Santa Fe", from Selected Poems, first published 1977/8

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2. Opus 101
 (Sung text)

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He not only plays
One note 
But holds another note
Away from it --
As a lover
Lifts 
A waft of hair 
From loved eyes.
The piano shivers,
When he touches it,
And the leg shines.

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3. Any other time

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4. Sonnet
 (Sung text)

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Summer, O Summer, fill thy shadowy trees
With a reprieve of cooling sacrament
Before we die among the mysteries; 
Loosen our wreaths and let us be content
To bow our heads before thy flower-bells
Beneath whose mould we too shall soon be spent, -- 
Lovers desiring this and little else: 
Thy laurel now; not ours, thy firmament
Of blue in which to dedicate our blood 
To earth, our vernal meaning now but meant,
Like the least meaning of thy smallest bud,
To go the way the earlier seasons went,
Breath is our fee and dividend and cost:
So let us grant the forfeit and be lost!

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5. Coming down the stairs

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Coming down the stairs
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6. He never knew

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He never knew what was the matter
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7. El musico

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  • by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "El musico", from Selected Poems, first published 1977/8

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8. The wintry mind
 (Sung text)

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Winter uncovers distances, I find; 
And so the cold and so the wintry mind
Takes leaves away, till there is left behind 
A wide cold world. And so the heart grows blind 
To the earth's green motions lying warm below 
Field upon field, field upon field, of snow.

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9. Water‑hyacinths

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10. Moving leaves

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11. Yes I hear them

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Yes I hear them
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12. The sowers
 (Sung text)

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Now horses' hooves are treading earth again
To start the wheat from darkness into day,
And along the heavy field go seven men 
With hands on ploughs and eyes on furrowing clay.

Six of the men are old; but one, a boy, 
Knows in his heart that more than fields are sown -- 
For spring is ploughing heaven with rows of joy
In the voice of one high bird, singing alone.

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