The New Moon- Ēriks Ešenvalds
The University of Utah Chamber Choir
Dr. Barlow Bradford, Conductor
Performed live in the National Taiwan Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan on July 17, 2018.
Text by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
Day, you have bruised and beaten me down,
As rain beats down the bright, proud sea,
Beaten my body, bruised my soul,
Left me nothing lovely or whole-
Yet I have wrested a gift from you,
Day that dies in dusky blue:
For suddenly over the factories
I saw a moon in the cloudy seas-
A wisp of beauty all alone
In a world as hard and gray as stone-
Oh who could be bitter and want to die
When a maiden moon wakes up in the sky?