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Labor of Extremities​/​Twilight Verano

from SKK (2019) for soprano and piano by Thomas Oboe Lee

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Ia. Labor of Extremities

Of velvet and brocade 
Calloused, glimmer cream
Years of texture over-layed
Crematory, turns to steam 

Waste resides under scales
Grotesque until clean
Fates not to be tossed like bales 
Of hay, which all do screen
Gradual evolution 

Ib. Twilight Verano

The smell of must 
Fresh water flow
Company will never go
Under the season's lust 

Sunsets fly 
Grease comes through
Tastes of heat, a clue
Aware that the eve will soon die

Insects and humidity
Boundless is the joy
Force ones to shed their being coy
Breathe the air with profound lucidity 

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from SKK (2019) for soprano and piano, released September 30, 2019

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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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