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Kati Agócs (b. 1975)
arr. Sarah Riskind

Genevieve Evans, Helen Feng, Yuri Lee, Lila Meretzky,
Ash Paris-Carter, Luca Schmidt, soloists
Yuri Lee and Emily Raman, handbells
Sarah Riskind, conductor

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Is this then the night of Power
Or merely your hair,
Is it the dawn-break, or your radiance?
In Beauty’s divan
Is it an eternal first line?
Or just a couplet transcribed from your inky
eyebrow?
Is this rose-breath (oh is it rose-breath)

Or your ambrosial perfume?
Is it the tuba tree in paradise (in paradise)
Or your elegant, empathic stature?

Is it a cypress grove?
Mongolian musk?
A chalice of the red wine of dawn-tide?
Ambergris?

Is this scorching lightning,
Or fire from Mt. Sana'i?
An earthly paradise,
Or Heaven’s garden?
Is it your hyacinth curl (hyacinth curl)?
Your Narcissus-eye?
My own burning sigh?

Everyone turns to pray
at a man-made shrine
My soul is a shrine
And it turns towards your face.

(English paraphrase by Kati Agócs of Bibi Hayati:
Ghazal #96, originally in Farsi)

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from Young Musicians Program (YMP) 2019 Choral Concert, released October 8, 2019

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The Walden School Dublin, New Hampshire

Founded in 1972, the Walden School is an acclaimed summer music school and festival, offering programs that emphasize creativity through musicianship, improvisation, and composition. Our programs include the Young Musicians Program (9-18) and the Creative Musicians Retreat (18+). Set in beautiful New Hampshire, Walden provides an inspiring retreat-like environment ideal for creative music making. ... more

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