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Timothy Corlis (Galiano Island, B.C. / C.-B.)
Loveliest of Trees, 2007
Text / Texte : A. E. Housman
For unaccompanied mixed choir. Commissioned by Noel Edison for the Elora Festival Singers. Published by Silent Dawn.

“Loveliest of Trees” makes full use of the range of the human voice to express emotional depth. By setting the text almost like a hymn, Corlis says “it speaks about a way of living, a way of knowing death in life and of living fully in that knowledge.” The aleatoric section at the end of the song is borrowed from Leonard Enns’ composition “’s no wonder.”

Pour chœur mixte non accompagné. Commande de Noel Edison pour les Elora Festival Singers, publiée par Silent Dawn.

« Loveliest of Trees » exploite pleinement la gamme de la voix humaine pour exprimer de profondes émotions. En rendant le texte presque comme un hymne, Timothy Corlis déclare que la pièce présente un mode de vie, un moyen de se sensibiliser à la mort et de vivre pleinement avec cette connaissance. La section aléatoire qui résonne à la fin s’appuie sur la locution « ’s no wonder » (ce n’est pas étonnant) dont se sert souvent le compositeur ontarien Leonard Enns.

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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

Le cerisier, souverain sylvestre,
fait éclore ses fleurs
le long de la lisière des bois,
tout vêtu de blanc pour la saison de Pâques.

Voilà que de mes soixante-dix ans,
déjà vingt se sont écoulés;
vingt ôtés de soixante-dix ne me laissent que
cinquante printemps pour voir s’éclater les bourgeons.

Je me promènerai alors dans les bois
où je retrouverai la majesté de ce feuillu couvert de neige.

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from Seasons of Life and Landscape, released October 25, 2019
Conducted by / Dirigé par Joel Tranquilla

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