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about
Seven Songs (2003)
Music by Vartan Aghababian (b. 1964)
Poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Movement 6 of 7, "Back"
Vartan and I conceived the idea for Seven Songs in the early winter of 2002 as our country was entering into armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. With imagery ranging from soldiers in the trenches, to wives and mothers on the home front, to the plight of veterans returning to broken lives, this powerful work evokes compassion for those who have given their lives or lost loved ones in the past, and challenges us to question our modern military actions and motivations.
lyrics
Back
Poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
They ask me where I’ve been,
And what I’ve done and seen,
But what can I reply
Who know it wasn’t I,
But someone just like me,
Who went across the sea
And with my head and hands
Killed men in foreign lands…
Though I must bear the blame
Because he bore my name.
credits
from Currents,
released September 16, 2013
Vartan Aghababian, composer
Hausmann String Quartet
Poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Produced by Leslie Ann Jones
Recorded by Leslie Ann Jones and Dann Michael Thompson
Edited by Robert Gatley
Mixed by Leslie Ann Jones
Recorded and mixed at Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm, Ltd., company
Marin County, CA
Mastered by Michael Romanowski at Michael Romanowski Mastering, San Francisco, CA
Executive Producers Jake Heggie, William and Bonnie Wade
Photo Credit Debra A. Zeller
annmosssoprano.com
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