Carmen Staaf - Evening (2016) - poem by R.M. Rilke - singer Alexa Barchini - June 2022

Описание: Evening (2016) by Carmen Staaf (b. 1981) - poem by R.M. Rilke
Chelsea Music Festival - June 26, 2022 - To Stone And Star | Chelsea Factory, NYC
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Evening (2016) by Carmen Staaf (b. 1981) - poem by R.M. Rilke
05:19 Credits

Vocalist | Alexa Barchini, http://www.alexabarchini.com/
Piano | Carmen Staaf, https://www.carmenstaaf.com/
Saxophone | John Ellis, https://www.johnaxsonellis.com/

EVENING (Der Abend) by R. M. Rilke (translated by F.C. MacIntyre)

Slowly now the evening changes his garments
held for him by a rim of ancient trees;
you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you,
one sinking and one rising toward the sky.
And you are left, to none belonging wholly,
not so dark as a silent house, nor quite
so surely pledged unto eternity
as that which grows to star and climbs the night.
To you is left (unspeakably confused)
your life, gigantic, ripening, full of fears,
so that it, now hemmed in, now grasping all,
is changed in you by turns to stone and stars.


EVENING (Der Abend) by R. M. Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;
and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;
and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.


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