VILLANELLE FOR GRADUATION (2006)


Villanelle for Graduation was premiered in 2014 by Amherst High School, Justin Pomietlarz, director. 


The text is by the composer.  It was written the last time she graduated from somewhere. 

                         

  1. SATB choir

  2. Duration: 3.5 minutes


Villanelle for Graduation


It seems our lives are in tatters:

So many loose ends!

In late spring as we start to scatter.


The Alma Mater makes us sadder

The end of the semester pends

It seems our lives are in tatters


This time of year, nature flatters:

The weeping cherry tree bends

In late spring as we start to scatter.


…something shatters

Our fluttering hearts a message sends:

It seems our lives are in tatters


On youth’s path, up life’s ladders,

An unsure way we wend

In late spring as we start to scatter.


Searching for all that really matters

We look through a wider and wiser lens

It seems our lives are in tatters

In late spring as we start to scatter.