Rilke: Love Song

from Duets by Barbara Hume

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Bonnie was inspired by Rainer Marie Rilke's poem titled "Love Song" so much so that she created this original composition, providing a unique impress of melody and poetry.

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Translated by A.Z. Foreman from German

How shall I hold my soul and yet not touch
It with your own? How shall I ever place
It clear of you on anything beyond?
Oh gladly I would stow it next to such
Things in the darkness as are never found
Down in an alien and silent space
That does not resonate when you resound.
But everything that touches me and you
Takes us together like a bow on two
Taut strings to stroke them to the voice of one.
What instrument have we been lain along?
Whose are the hands that play our unison?
Oh sweet song!

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from Duets, released June 15, 2020
Rainer Marie Rilke, poem titled "Love Song"
Bonnie Murphy, composer/pianist
Barbara Hume, vocalist

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Barbara Hume Seattle, Washington

Barbara Hume lives in the Seattle area where she has collaborated with composers for the past 20 years including David Paul Mesler, Bonnie Murphy, Paul Lewis and other northwest artists producing original music, set to a rich and varied canon of poetry. In these albums, the weaving of melody and imagery produce songs that unearth the raw senses that nurture the soul. ... more

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