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Carol Barnett
Carol Barnett (Beady Eyes)
The Lady who Offers her Looking-Glass to Venus (from Epigrams, Epitaphs)
A lady, all too aware of the ravages of encroaching age, puts away her looking glass for good.
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My Own Epitaph
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On the Setting up Mr. Butler’s Monument in Westminster Abbey
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Epitaph of Two Piping-Bullfinches of Lady Ossory’s, Buried under a Rose-Bush in her Garden
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On My First Son
SATB, 4 hand piano
The Lady who Offers her Looking-Glass to Venus is filled with the quiet despair of lost beauty. The frequent grace-notes in the piano evoke the last wavering images in the glass; the repeated high notes represent time ticking away the remaining minutes, hours, days.
Composer’s Notes
Epigrams, Epitaphs was written for the Grand Rapids Area Community Chorus. Director James Clarke wanted a companion piece to Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes, hence the piano four-hand accompaniment.
– Carol Barnett
Text
The Lady who Offers her Looking-Glass to Venus
Venus, take my votive glass;
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
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Music from Carol Barnett (Beady Eyes)
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The Birds (from I Sing the Birth)
Difficulty: 3Duration: less than 3 min.
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