A Jane ... Agitato

from Ascoli-Shelley Cycle (2023) by Thomas Oboe Lee

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VII. A Jane

Tra le stelle, che trepide
scintillavano, o amor, la luna fulgida
nella notte fiori;
tra i suoni, che effondevansi
dalla chitarra senza pure un fremito,
la tua voce salì.

Qual della luna il morbido
splendor sul lume delle stelle languido
e freddo si posò;
tale più carezzevole
la tua voce alle corde, prive d’anima
l’anima sua prestò.

Or le stelle si destano
(tardi la luna questa notte levasi;
dorme un’ora di più).
Non una sola foglia
s’agiterà, se il dilettoso rorido
canto diffonda tu.

Sebbene il suon su l’anima
gravi, tu canta! Le tue note traggono
i nostri cuori a vol
a un mondo, ove la musica,
il lume della luna e il senso vibrano
in un palpito sol.

The keen stars were twinkling,
And the fair moon was rising among them,
Dear Jane!
The guitar was tinkling,
But the notes were not sweet till you sung them
Again.

As the moon's soft splendour
O'er the faint cold starlight of Heaven
Is thrown,
So your voice most tender
To the strings without soul had then given
Its own.

The stars will awaken,
Though the moon sleep a full hour later,
To-night;
No leaf will be shaken
Whilst the dews of your melody scatter
Delight.

Though the sound overpowers,
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing
A tone
Of some world far from ours,
Where music and moonlight and feeling
Are one.

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from Ascoli-Shelley Cycle (2023), released October 3, 2023

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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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