Opus 3: MARIPOSA

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Score (Voice & Piano, $20)

Score & Parts (Viola or other solo instrument, $20)

 
                     RecordingComplete Works, Vol. 1 ($12)
 
 
Composed in Spring 2002.

Mariposa

Edna St. Vincent Millay


Butterflies are white and blue
In this world we wander through
Suffer me to take your hand
Death comes in a day or two

All the things we ever knew
Will be ashes in that hour
Mark the transient butterfly,
How he hangs apon the flower

Suffer me to take your hand
Suffer me to cherish you
Till the dawn is in the sky,
whether I be false or true,
Death comes in a day or two.

View Score Excerpt (pdf)

 
Performed at sight in Spring, 2002, at a WVU Composition Studio meeting by Ceci Dadisman (voice) and Ruth Fung (piano).  LISTEN (mp3)

Performed on April 8, 2005, at Jarvis's Senior Composition Recital by Kate Middel (viola) and Fung (piano).

Performed on Nov. 7, 2005, at an ASU Composition Studio Recital by Courtney Sherman (voice) and Tania Chavez-Nadér (piano).  The engineer was unable to begin recording until a few seconds into the introduction, but the performance was exceptional.  LISTEN (mp3)

Jeremy Jarvis
1017 Vivian Circle,  BOULDER, CO  80303
(303) 725-8912  jeremy@jarvisartmusic.com