Audio from Live Performance on March 16th 2020

Vivian Yau, soprano
Kevin Korth, piano

Apparition
Music by George Crumb
Text from Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d"


I. The night in silence under many a star…

The night in silence under many a star,
The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,
And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil’d death,
And the body gratefully nesting close to thee.


II. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d…

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.


III. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet

Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,
I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.


IV. Approach strong deliveress!

Approach strong deliveress,
When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee,
Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.


V. Come lovely and soothing death…

Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely, arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later delicate death.


VI. The night in silence under many a star…

The night in silence under many a star,
The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,
And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil’d death,
And the body gratefully nesting close to thee.

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