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Serre d'ennui .​.​. Greenhouse of boredom

from Chansons de Maeterlinck (2020) for soprano and piano by Thomas Oboe Lee

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Ô cet ennui bleu dans le cœur!
Avec la vision meilleure,
Dans le clair de lune qui pleure,
De mes rêves bleus de langueur!

Cet ennui bleu comme la serre,
Où l'on voit closes à travers
Les vitrages profonds et verts,
Couvertes de lune et de verre;

Les grandes végétations
Dont l'oubli nocturne s'allonge,
Immobilement comme un songe
Sur les roses des passions;

Où de l'eau très lente s'élève
En mélant la lune et le ciel
En un sanglot glauque éternel,
Monotonement comme un rêve.

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Oh, this blue boredom of the heart!
With better vision,
In the crying moonlight,
Of my blue dreams of languor!

This blue boredom like the greenhouse,
Where we see it closed through
The deep and green glazings,
Covers of moon and glass.

The large vegetations
Whose forgotten night is getting longer,
Really like a dream
On the roses of passion.

Where very slow water rises
By mixing the moon and the sky
In an eternal glaucous sob,
Monotonously like a dream.

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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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