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Autumn's Call
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Song with an orchestral background. See the lyrics for the poem.
vocal sad autumn poem
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Contemporary classical, new age, acoustic piano music AND SONGS!
I didnt discover I could write music until I was nearly forty. Those were my road warrior days, and there was a hotel in Atlanta with a piano in the atrium where I used to give impromptu concerts. My musical training was as a classical pianist, and I thought of my music then as being in that genre (although they were very popular. People used to hang off the balconies in the evening listening to me play).. When I retired, I started to write novels. When I published the first one, I mentioned in the biography that I was also a composer. On a whim, I recorded some of my music and sent it to the editor. Shes a big rock fan, but she loved my soothing piano music. So, here are some pieces for you to (hopefully) enjoy. You can find my novels, also, under my pen name (W Richard St. James) at clublighthousepublishing.com . Youll see that the music may be mellow, but the books are very spicy!
Song Info
Charts
Peak #114
Peak in subgenre #19
Author
W. Richard St. James
Rights
2015
Uploaded
May 18, 2015
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.7 MB 128 kbps 1:52
Story behind the song
I wrote this peom in between high school and the start of college, It was inspired by Paul Verlaine's Chanson d'Automne . I wrote the setting in the late 80s, except for the orchestration and trumpet part which I added for this.
Lyrics
Now autumn calls, With summer's promise unfulfilled. No harvest falls On fields tha fear has left untilled And time's cruel voice Speaks tauntingly of days now lost. Oh now rejoice, Those who have lived and scorned the cost. For summer ends And ending leaves me only dreams The dashed hope rends My heart the sorrow in me screams At autumn's call, And goaded by a black despair I roam, a thrall To bonfire smoke that taints the air.
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