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'To Yazikov,' Poem by Pushkin
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In Russian, for Voice and Piano
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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
Classical • Classical General
Charts
Peak #89
Peak in subgenre #30
Author
Masaru Yonemitsu (Loren Lieberman)
Rights
2008
Uploaded
November 04, 2008
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MP3
MP3 5.1 MB • 128 kbps • 5:36
Story behind the song
Because of letters which were intercepted by the Tsar's censors, which were considered favorable to atheism, (and, apparently, because his poetry was popular with revolutionaries), Pushkin was exiled to his mother's estate of Mikhailovskoe in north Russia, from August 1824 to August 1826, under surveillance. There, as well as poems such as "To Yazikov", he finished "The Gypsies, " wrote Boris Godunov , "Graf Nulin" and the second chapter of Eugene Onegin. Classical Russian Poetry, set to music, for Voice and Piano. If you are interested in obtaining the sheet music, or an audio MP3 file, please contact me at adhikapokoya@gmail.com
Lyrics
Alexander Pushkin To Yazikov Since olden days, the sweet ties Between poets have been bonded: The priests of the muses united; An indivisible flame burns in them; To each other they are strangers by fate, But are of one by inspiration. I swear by Ovids shadow: Yazikov, I am close to you. For a long time on Derptsky road I left at morning And towards a favourable place Carrying my heavy staff, I would recover The picture of carefree days, The conversation freely inspired And your lyrical genius. But my happiness plays spitefully: For a long time without a roof over my head, I was blown to wherever the absolute powers sent me; Having fallen asleep, I do not know where I shall wake up. Always driven, now in exile I drag the chained days. Hear, poet, my calling, My hopes do not deceive. In the village, where Peters pupil, The Tsars and the tsarinas favourite slave Their forgotten home-servant, My great-grandfather, knave, disappeared, Where, having forgotten Elizabeths court, and magnificent vows, Under the canopy of lime avenues He thought in the cool years About his distant Africa, I wait for you. We will Embrace in a rural place My brother by blood, in soul, The playful fellow known to you; The raised prophets muse, For us, our Delwig will leave everything. And our Trinity will glorify The dark corner of exile. We shall deceive our guards surveillance, And eulogize the gifts of liberty And of our care-free youth Let's waken the noisy feasts, The attention of friends we shall worship To the ring of wine-glasses and verses, And the boredom of winter evenings Well banish with wine and songs. (Mikailovskoya, 1824) (Composers Translation)
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