Cara Haxo, composer
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Être (2019)

soprano, cello
c. 1 minute
​text by Sara Teasdale

Premiered by Courtney Sherman (soprano) and Michael Dewhirst (cello) as part of the "a very small consortium" project
Fort Howard Hall, Weidner Center, Green Bay, WI, 29 February 2020

Être: I am; you are. Such is the framework for the final stanza of Sara Teasdale’s “Peace.”

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Excerpt from "Peace" from Rivers to the Sun (1915)

I am the pool of gold
          When sunset burns and dies,--
          You are my deepening skies,
Give me your stars to hold.

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