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After a long and fruitless waiting of two years without a single line from you I am determined to write to you myself. As I sit here in Reading Gaol after a trial and sentence that has brought me public ruin and infamy, the memory of our affection is often with me. Yet I will begin by telling you that I blame myself for allowing such a friendship as ours, devoid of all intellect and based solely on pleasure, to dominate my life. To think that loathing, bitterness and contempt should forever take the place in my heart once held by love is very sad to me.  But as I look back over our time together I realize that you were destructive to my work as an artist. 

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from Oscar Wilde's De Profundis (2010), released June 13, 2011
Tim Krol, baritone.
Holly Chatham, piano

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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