Name: "Bom e Expressivo" Alexandre O'Neill
Duration: 4 min 52 s
Channel: Alexandre O'Neill/Masaru Yonemitsu
Description: Free MP3 download. In Portuguese, for Soprano and Jazz Ensemble

"Bom e Expressivo" Alexandre O'Neill

Loren Lieberman

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In Portuguese, for Soprano and Jazz Ensemble

jazz classical instrumental vocal opera orchestra chamber ballet

Loren Lieberman

Composer for large-scale performance work, ballet and opera. Have written music for classical theatrical productions of Shakespeare, ("The Tempest," "The Twelft

Loren Lieberman is a native of Denver, Colorado, now living on the West Coast in California, where he is best known for his work as an actor in Classical and Shakespearean Theatre. He has a degree from Sonoma State University in Theatre Arts, and has been an Honor's Music Composition Student at the College of Marin, Santa Rosa Junior College, and at Sonoma State University. He has won an award for composition from the Redwood Empire Music Association. He has recently completed an opera in Russian, based on the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "Cancer Ward", (and of the same name), and is currently working on his fourth opera, based on the Classical Tragedy by Sophocles, "Oedipus the King," with a libretto in Ancient Greek. His interest in languages has shaped much of his artistic temperment, and he is self taught in Russian and Sanskrit, and has hopes to begin his next opera, Shakespeare's, "Romeo and Juliet," in Hindi.

Song Info

Genre

Latin • Latin Jazz

Charts

#1,716 today Peak #54

#162 in subgenre Peak #5

Author

Alexandre O'Neill/Masaru Yonemitsu

Rights

adhikapokoya 2011

Uploaded

January 30, 2011

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.5 MB • 128 kbps • 4:52

Lyrics

SIMPLY EXPRESSIVE
Make your verse flawed,
but do it for a reason:
with flaws that aren’t mistakes,
in the fight against what’s pretty.

Seize for me those perfectly
round rhymes that are
the sweet rolls of fools
and break their necks,

as someone else demanded
that we do to eloquence.
And if there’s an Excellency
who screams “This isn’t poetry!”,

tell him that no, it isn’t – 
it’s a stumbling, it’s sandpaper,
the act of sawing, crushed glass,
shredded paper or a stone roll-

ing against a stone . . . 
But you can also make use 
of neat, regular rhyme,
for the rule is there’s no rule

except for your own rule,
with your rhyme and rhythm,
to make it not simply pretty
but simply expressive . . .

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