Five songs for mezzo-soprano and piano, with translations by Helen Waddell. Premiered by Nancy Aspel Haas.

for mezzo-soprano and piano / 12 min.
in five movements
That Night / The Slave / Delight / Swift Life / Old Love

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Program Note

I composed this cycle at the request of Nancy Aspel Haas, who premiered it at a faculty concert at Walnut Hill School, an arts high school in Massachusetts where we both taught at the time. I discovered the Roman poet Petronius through the wonderful translations of Helen Waddell used here. The songs are ordered to create a chronology of love and desire, from first flush to reminiscence.

—Theodore Wiprud

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On January 1, 1986   /   Music