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[Bass enters with a noose and a chair. He stands on the chair and throws the noose towards the rafters. He misses. He sits down, defeated.]

Another moment to live through then
Another moment to live through then
How the rope I fasten again and again and again and again
Someone cuts.

I'd prepared so wonderfully
Already a little eternity
Was in my guts.

[Alto enters and sees the noose. She takes it offstage. She comes back on with a bottle of pills and the makings of a sandwich.]

She'll bring me now
As she's done before.
A spoonful of life to sup.
I won't, I won't, I won't have anymore.
Let me throw it up.

[Alto starts to make the sandwich, placing the pills between the meat and the bread.]

Life's an excellent thing, I know
Through all the world outspread
I simply can't digest it though
It only goes to my head.
It only goes to my head.

What nourishes others it makes me ill
One can dislike the thing
What for a thousand years I'd still
Require is dieting.
Require is dieting.

[Alto forces Bass to sit at the table and eat the sandwich. He refuses.]

She'll bring me now
As she's done before.
A spoonful of life to sup.
I won't, I won't, I won't have anymore.
Let me throw it--

[Alto shoves the sandwich into Bass's mouth and forces him to swallow. It's degrading.]

Life's an excellent thing, I know.
Life's an excellent thing, I know, I know.
Life's an excellent thing.

credits

from Threesomes and Suicides: My Night with Rilke, released May 11, 2013
Alto: Tenara Calem
Bass: Christopher Beatley

Violin: Emma Piazza
Cello: Molly Griffin McKenna
Clarinet: Chelsea Bernard
Bass Trombone: Rowan Lockery
Piano: Amanda Claire Buckley

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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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