Joseph Schwantner - Black Anemones 1980 (Dawn Upshaw, Margot Garrett) + Score

#2 from 1980's "Two Poems Of Agueda Pizarro for Soprano and Piano", Black Anemones is a beautiful poem on the poet's clearly complex relationship with her mother. Set to music by Joseph Schwantner, it becomes even more poignant and surprisingly structured at that. I'll be honest (as always) and tell you that the marriage of this gorgeous music with these sadly heartfelt words and delivered by the singular voice of Dawn Upshaw will make me verklempt about 73% of the time. But I'm weird that way about really good Art, I guess. TEXT: Black Anemones Agueda Pizarro Mother, you watch me sleep and your life is a large tapestry of all the colors of all the most ancient murmurs, knot after twin knot, root after root of story. You don’t know how fearful your beauty is while I sleep. Your hair is the moon of a sea sung in silence. You walk with silver lions and wait to estrange me deep in the rug covered with sorrow embroidered by you in a fierce symmetry binding with thread of Persian silk the pinetrees and the griffins. You call me blind, you touch my eyes with Black Anemones. I am a spider that keeps spinning from the spool in my womb weaving through eyes the dew of flames on the web. Git You One!: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/sear...