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Frammento .​.​. Largo

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

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VIII. Frammento

Io son come uno spirito che visse
entro il suo cuor dei cuori; i sentimenti
tutti di lui sentii, tutti i pensieri
di lui pensai. Dell’anima il segreto
conobbi conversar, ritmo, che solo
nel silenzio del sangue si discerne,
quando tutti i suoi battiti del vivo
tremolio dan l’immagine che oscilla
sui mar d’estate nella calma. Apersi,
qual per magica chiave, dal profondo
del suo spirito le auree melodie;
le sparsi intorno ed entrovi me stesso
immersi e ritemprai. Così, frammezzo
alla nebbia del turbine, riveste
l’aquila l’ali di fulgor superbo.

I am as a spirit who has dwelt

Within his heart of hearts, and I have felt

His feelings, and have thought his thoughts, and known

The inmost converse of his soul, the tone

Unheard but in the silence of his blood, 

When all the pulses in their multitude

Image the trembling calm of summer seas.

I have unlocked the golden melodies

Of his deep soul, as with a master-key,

And loosened them and bathed myself therein—

Even as an eagle in a thunder-mist

Clothing his wings with lightning.

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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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