Weary, with empty throat, stands Tantalus - Kile Smith | BCE

Описание: Northwestern University
Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble
Matthew Cramer, conductor
Donald Nally, director

Pauline Kempf and Hannah Christiansen, violin
Elizabeth Bellisario, viola
Chris Wild, cello
Adam Attard, bass
Brandon Acker, theorbo
Charles Foster, organ

music by Kile Smith from The Waking Sun
recorded live in concert on May 15, 2019 in Galvin Recital Hall at the Bienen School of Music
from the Davee Media Library collection

choirs.northwestern.edu

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Weary, with empty throat, stands Tantalus; above his guilty head hangs plenteous food; on either side, with laden boughs, a tree leans over him and, bending and trembling beneath its weight of fruit, makes sport with his wide-straining jaws. He tries no more to touch, he turns away his eyes, he tightly shuts his lips; behind clenched teeth he bars his hunger. Then the whole grove lets down its wealth, and the ripe fruits beckon from above. As his hands stretch toward the mocking gift, the whole harvest of the bending wood leaps up high, out of reach. Then comes a raging thirst, harder to bear than hunger. The poor wretch hurls himself at waves that motion to his lips, but they elude his grasp. Deep from the whirling stream he drinks but dust.
—Thyestes