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Ellen Gilson Voth
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As night and morning meet (low)
The wonder of the natural world and the hope of a new day.
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As night and morning meet
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As night and morning meet
low voice, piano
A gorgeous piano landscape supports Voth’s melodic vocal line in this contemporary art song, illustrating the wonder of the natural world and the hope of a new day. “As night and morning meet” is an example of how Voth wisely chooses texts to give singers a point of contact: the song has many-layered meanings that both the performers and audiences may explore. Dr. Voth is an accomplished pianist and her accompaniment integrates with the voice into a synthesized whole.
Composer’s Notes
The title of this song, “As night and morning meet”, is intended to capture the layers of meeting and parting that Browning paints through his choices of words. It was a joy to live with this text and let the music in it emerge for soprano Michelle Fiertek, pianist Michael Korman and their American art song album project. I encourage you to hear their interpretation on the album, Every tiny thing (Albany Records).
– Ellen Gilson Voth, 2020
Text
“Meeting at Night”
The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed in the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
“Parting at morning”
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain’s rim;
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me.
– Robert Browning
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