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[Tenor alone on stage]

I'd like to sing someone to sleep.

[Tenor is joined by Soprano and Alto, both cradling newborns. The Bass enters using his newborn baby as a shaker. Tenor watches them enviously.]

My hands shake as I try to construct you
Atom on atom
You, cathedral, we dimly perceive
Who can bring you to completion?
Can I bring you to completions?

[Soprano, Alto, and Bass start to mistreat their babies--holding them precariously, tossing them to one another, etc. Tenor crumbles with anxiety.]

What is Rome?
It is crumbled.
What is the world?
We are destroying it
Before your towers can taper
Before we can place together your face.

[Soprano and Alto sit and go back to cradling their babies while Bass exits the stage. Tenor calms down.]

Yet sometimes in my mind I can see you
In your whole expanse
From your deepest beginnings
Up to your rooftops glittering ridge
Up to your rooftops glittering ridge

[Bass appears above the Tenor, dangling his newborn over the edge of a precariously placed railing. Tenor tries to alert the audience to the mistreatment.]

What is Rome?
It is crumbled.
What is the world?
We are destroying it
Before your towers can taper
Before we can place together your face.

[Bass drops the newborn. Tenor catches it and holds it close, reveling in the scent of the baby. Alto and Soprano abandon their babies and move towards the Tenor, entranced by the love for the child in his hands.]

I have laid
My eyes upon you
Wide.
They hold you gently
And let you go

[Tenor passes the child back to Bass]

When a thing movies
In the dark.

credits

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

Cello: Molly Griffin McKenna

Percussion: Amanda Claire Buckley

Recorded at Bennington College May 2013

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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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