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Joshua Shank
Joshua Shank (B&F Music)
Chanson de Mariage
A song with a running piano part to represent the inevitability of someone marrying their true love.
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Chansons de la Vigne
SATB, piano
Jaunty and sensual, this song set uses French poems in their original language from nineteenth-century Romantic poets Arthur Rimbaud (who wrote the bulk of his work between the ages of 16 and 19) and Guillaume Apollinaire (who was once accused of attempting to steal Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”). These pieces start with a flourish and end with a heartfelt nod to a lifelong commitment to love through the lens of fine wine.
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5. Chanson de Mariage
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois
le regard d’Orphée mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi
que beaucoup pourraient confondre
nos yeux et les étoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenêtre
des citoyens qui sont contents depuis cent ans
d’avoir la vie et de menues choses à defender
Ni parce que fondés en poésie
nous avons des droits
sur les paroles qui forment
et défont l’Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule
et que nous savons rire
Ni parce que nous fumons
et buvons comme autrefois
Réjouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu
et des poètes
L’amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumière
Tout le solide espace entre
les étoiles et les planets
L’amour veut qu’aujourdi’hui
mon ami se marie
– Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
5. Chanson de Mariage
Nor because our glasses throw us
Orpheus’s dying glance one last time
Nor because we have so much height
that many confuse
our eyes with stars
Nor because the flags flap in the window
of the citizens who are happy for 100 years
to have life and tiny things to defend
Nor because rooted in
poetry we have the rights
to the words that form
and batter in the entire universe
Nor because we can cry without ridicule
and that we know how to laugh
Nor because we smoke
and drink as we always have
We rejoice because the director of fire
and poets
The love that fills as the light
All the solid space between
the stars and planets
Love commands today
that my friend will marry
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