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Lilichka!, poem by Vladimir Mayakovski
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"Lilichka," poem by Vladimir Mayakovski, for Baritone and Orchestra.
jazz classical instrumental vocal opera orchestra chamber ballet
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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 • Opera
Charts
Peak #70
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Vladimir Mayakovski
Rights
adhikapokoya 2010
Uploaded
August 24, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 4:11
Story behind the song
Because the libretto for my second opera is in Russian, I have joined a couple of Russian web sites to increase my contact with the language. I recently asked a member to name a favorite poem, and she replied, "Lilichka," by Mayakovski. When asked why she like this poem, she said, because, it was about love, and Mayakovski wrote in a very original way. The composer did not view the poem simply as about love, but, regarded it as a medium for expressing some of the themes and issues, that was the life of Mayakovski. The music contains harshness, as well as tenderness.
Lyrics
The title is part of the lyrics, so that the Baritone sings: "Lilichka! (This is) In place of a letter.... Tobacco smoke eats the air away. The room,-- a chapter from Kruchenykha's Inferno. Recall,-- by the window, that day, I caressed you ecstatically, with fervor. Here you sit now, with your heart in iron armor. In a day, youa€™ll scold me perhaps and tell me to leave. Frenzied, my trembling arm in a gloomy parlor will hardly be able to fit the sleeve. I'll rush out and hurl my body into the street,-- distraught, lashed by despair and sadness. There's no need for this, my darling, my sweet. Let's part tonight and end this madness. Either way, my love is an arduous weight, hanging on you wherever you flee. Let me bellow out in a final complaint all of my heartbroken misery. A laboring bull, if he had enough, will leave and find cool water to lie in. But for me, there's no sea except for your love,-- from which even tears won't earn me some quiet. If an elephant wants to relax, he'll lie, pompous, outside in the sun-baked dune, Except for your love, there's no sun in the sky and I don't know where you are or with whom. If you thus tormented another poet, he would trade in his love for money and fame. But nothing sounds as precious to me as the ringing sound of your darling name. I won't drink poison, or jump to demise, or pull the trigger to take my own life. Except for your eyes, no blade can control me, No sharpened knife. Tomorrow you'll forget that it was I who crowned you, who burned out the blossoming soul with love and days will form a whirling carnival that will ruffle my manuscripts and lift them above Will the dry autumn leaves of my sentences cause you to pause, breathing hard? Let me pave a path with final tenderness for your footsteps as you depart." 26th of May, 1916, Petrograd
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