The Willow Leaf - Poem Cycle | Bernard Herrmann

The Willow Leaf - Poem Cycle

by Bernard Herrmann

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1.	The Willow Leaf (Orchestral version) 01:45	info
2.	Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (Orchestral version) 02:16	info
3.	Something Tells (Orchestral version) 01:45	lyrics
Something Tells by David Ross There is something tells a tree To wave a green sombrero, Plumed with swallows And ride a Pony-hill to the sun. There is something tells a butterfly to leave the nunnery of its cocoon And go gypsying in colored dress When April stirs a fiddle in a willow tree. There is something tells the feet of goats to rattle every hilltop like a drum. And kick the silver flagon from the shoulders of the grass.
4.	The Willow Leaf (with Narration) 01:47	lyrics
The Willow Leaf Chinese unknown I am in love with a girl dreaming at the window. Not for her elaborate house on the banks of Yellow River, But for a Willow Leaf she has let fall into the water. I am in love with the East breeze, not that he brings the scent of the flowering of peaches white on eastern hills, But that he has drifted the Willow Leaf against my boat. I am in the love with the Willow Leaf Not that he speaks of green spring coming to us again, But that the dreaming girl etched a name with her embroidery needle, And the name is mine. I am in love with a girl dreaming at the window.
5.	Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (with Narration) 02:16	lyrics
Weep you no more, sad fountains; What need you flow so fast? Look how the snowy mountains Heaven’s sun doth gently waste. But my sun’s heavenly eyes View not your weeping, That now lie sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping. Sleep is a reconciling, A rest that peace begets. Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at even he sets? Rest you then, rest, sad eyes, Melt not in weeping While she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping
6.	Something Tells (with Narration) 01:48	lyrics
Something Tells by David Ross There is something tells a tree To wave a green sombrero, Plumed with swallows And ride a Pony-hill to the sun. There is something tells a butterfly to leave the nunnery of its cocoon And go gypsying in colored dress When April stirs a fiddle in a willow tree. There is something tells the feet of goats to rattle every hilltop like a drum. And kick the silver flagon from the shoulders of the grass.

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Part of a three-part "Poem Cycle" by Bernard Herrmann and based upon a traditional Chinese poem, "The Willow Leaf" begins this three part poem cycle.

This rare work not heard in over 80 years is lovingly captured by the Hollywood Studio Orchestra's performance and the eloquent reading by author Steven C. Smith.

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released March 6, 2021

Michael McGehee conducting
Hollywood Studio Orchestra

Steven C. Smith, Narrator

Principal Musicians
Sean Stackpoole, Flute
Vicki Lee, Oboe
Jon Stehney, Clarinet, Bassoon
Jason Beaumont, Horn
Tati Geisler, Trumpet
Teddi Barclay, Harp
Sarah Tatman, Violin, Viola
Caroline Chien-Galbraith, Cello

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