Red Omen

II: Nam veluti pueri trepidant

Year 2008
Time 1:55
Size 2.65 MB
Book II (55-61)

Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecis
in tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemus
interdum, nilo quae sunt metuenda magis quam
quae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntque futura.
hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest
non radii solis neque lucida tela diei
discutiant, sed naturae species ratioque.

For even as children tremble and fear everything in blinding darkness, so we sometimes dread in the light things that are no more to be feared than what children shudder at in the dark, and imagine will come to pass. This terror of the mind then, this darkness, must needs be scattered not by the rays of the sun and the gleaming shafts of day, but by the outer view and the inner law of nature.

This movement was premiered on Monday, November 16, 2009 by the following performers:

Kristin DeGroot, Jasmine Haghighatian, Megan Radowick, Bronwyn White, soprano
Heather Blount, Roxanna Tehrani, alto
Lorenzo Garcia, Emmanuel Medina, Rafael Moras, Darius Thomas, tenor
Anthony Garant, Christopher Garcia, Jeffery Hunter, Adrian Kirtley, bass

A special thank you to Andrea Cerda and Amanda Cullom, who helped prepare the piece but could not join us on the concert.

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