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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.The principle difficulty with this song presumably lies in accepting the premise as tragic. Indeed, this term may be too strong for the emotion here. Nonetheless, in working on it, I found myself moved to great compassion for these characters and their pitiful situation. Expending such compassion is at once a protest against the disgusting militarism that once more holds sway in the U.S., and equally against the repulsive, stupid puritanism that has also revived itself, unfortunately.
Though I view it as a work in progress, I dedicate it to two great composers and esteemed friends, Jane Gardner and Rod Moulds. For some real Lieder, see Jane's www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=6518 and Rod's www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=41435!
