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Seven Songs: Long Tom

from Currents by Ann Moss

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Seven Songs (2003)
Music by Vartan Aghababian (b. 1964)
Poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Movement 5 of 7, "Long Tom"

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.

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Long Tom
Poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

He talked of Delhi brothels half the night,
Quaking with fever; And then, dragging tight
The frowsy blankets to his chattering chin,
Cursed for an hour because they were so thin

And nothing would keep out the gnawing cold –
Scarce forty years of age, and yet so old,
Haggard and worn with burning eyes set deep –
Until at last he cursed himself asleep.

Before I’d shut my eyes reveille came;
And as I dressed by the one candle-flame
The mellow golden light fell on his face
Still sleeping, touching it to tender grace,

Rounding the features life had scarred so deep,
Till youth came back to him in quiet sleep:
And then what women saw in him I knew
And why they’d loved him all his brief life through.

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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
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I'm a vocalist, teaching artist, and champion of contemporary composition. My artistic mission is to lift up new and contemporary vocal literature to serve as narrative for the hard to speak about issues of our times. I perform and collaborate with a dynamic array of composers, chamber ensembles and orchestras. ... more

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