Your Kiss sets a love poem by e.e. cummings, I havefound what you are like, and at first glance it is tellingthat the poem in question is one that exudes lovewithout ever actually mentioning the word itself.Instead, the perfumes conjured by cummings' wordsslowly float, swirl and eddy in the air until they finallycome to rest on the last two words, which furnish thework's title. As with the words, so with the music, asthe soprano similarly floats her rhapsodic melismas,and piano chords gently anchor her in Thomas'harmonic fields. Love knows no time, cummingsseems to say, and Thomas slows time down with hermusic to prove his (and her) point. Paul PellayDancers option: Can be performed along withdancer(s) when feasible but the tenor and pianistshould remain in the foreground of the performanceand should not be “a back-up band” to the dancer(s).Augusta Read Thomas
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