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[Tenor and Soprano spoon post-coitally on a couch. Tenor peels himself, limb by limb, away from the Soprano as not to wake her.]

How do I keep my soul in me
Away from touching yours?
How do I raise it high enough
So I may pass onto something more?

[Tenor grabs a cup and goes to the bathroom to fill it with water. Bass appears from behind the couch--shirtless and hung-over.]

I'd like to keep it sheltered
Somewhere it can't be found
In some dark and silent place
Where it cannot resonate
When your body sounds.

[Tenor reenters. He and Bass avoid eye contact and start looking for their shirts and shoes.]

I'd like to keep it sheltered
Somewhere it can't be found
In some dark and silent place
Where it cannot resonate
When your body sounds.

[Soprano wakes up, glowing but lonely. She lounges on the couch while Bass and Tenor put on their shirts and shoes. No one looks at each other.]

Why does everything
That moves you
Find it's way to move me, too?
It takes us, you and I--us.
It takes us, together,
Like a violin's bow
Drawing one voice out of two separate strings.

Across what instrument
Are we spanned
And what musician holds us
In his hand.
Oh, the sweetest song.

[The three lovers stand and look at each other, wondering where to go or what to say next.]

How do I keep my soul in me
Away from touching yours?
How do I raise it high enough
So I may pass onto something more?

credits

from Threesomes and Suicides: My Night with Rilke, released May 11, 2013
Soprano: Elissa Daniels
Tenor: Alex Diaz
Bass: Christopher Beatley

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Amanda Claire Buckley New York, New York

Amanda Claire Buckley is a young composer interested in breaking with the American music-theater tradition; blending modern pop writing with the style of Weill and Sondheim while paying homage to the cathartic power of hymns. Her work plays with both chromaticism, modality, and the juxtaposition of poetic language with humorous theatricality. ... more

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