Longing for Home

*I. Jerusalem

II. Mother

III. Voyager Dust

IV. A Letter to Marianne Moore

V. Dancing Toward the Promised Land

Carol Barnett

A song cycle for mezzo, baritone, and piano

www.carolbarnett.net

JERUSALEM (after Halevi)

Beautiful heights, city of a great King, From the western coast my desire burns towards thee.

Pity and tenderness burst in me, remembering Thy former glories, thy temple now broken stones. I wish I could fly to thee on the wings of an eagle

And mingle my tears with thy dust. I have sought thee, love, though the King is not there And instead of Gilead’s balm, snakes and scorpions.

Let me fall on thy broken stones and tenderly kiss them— The taste of thy dust will be sweeter than honey to me.

Robert Mezey (b. 1935)

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Composer’s note

Physician, poet and philosopher Judah Halevi was born in Spain, in 1075 or 1086, and died in 1141 shortly after arriving in the Holy Land. He is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his religious and his secular works, many of which appear in present-day Jewish liturgy. American poet and academic Robert Mezey is also a noted

translator. He was born in Philadelphia and attended Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, and Stanford University. He has held various teaching positions and retired in 1999 after 23

years at Pomona College. He currently resides in Maryland.

Jerusalem is the first of five songs comprising Longing for Home, a cycle written to celebrate Source Song Festival’s fifth season. The texts all reference homecoming in various ways – the

enduring wish to return to a place remembered with love and longing, as well as the uncertainty, the impossibility of doing so. The musical influences of Jerusalem include Jewish

liturgical cantillation, middle-eastern scales with their frequent augmented seconds, and word-painting – the soaring of an eagle, the excruciating sting of a scorpion.

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LONGING FOR HOME

Carol Barnett

Poem translation © 1973 Robert Mezey. Used with permission.Music © 2018 Carol Barnett. All rights reserved.

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Judah Halevitranslated by Robert Mezey

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