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The December 2004 performance "A Winter Concert" included selections of quotes and poetry which were read before each piece. Below are the selections in the order in which they were read:
E.E. Cummings
i thank You God for most this amazing
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
“INVENTION #1”, K. Van Duyne
“To love and to be loved is to feel the sun on both sides.”
David Viscott
“And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.”
Dorthy L. Sayers
“AFTERNOON GLOW”, K. Van Duyne
“Boy walks through ocean, something beautiful. Your peace is like a wild card, a spirit, which has sunk to the bottom only holding the line which leads to the surface.”
Anonymous
“5000FT. AND UP”, Jeff Thomasson
New Testament, KJV
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed
are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5:3-6)
“DUET 4”, Monica Torres
Mary Oliver
In Blackwater Woods
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
“CHANGE IN THE AIR”, K. Van Duyne
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