Elliott Carter In Conversation With Charles Rosen Lyrics & Chords By Elliott Carter

My father's house was razed In nineteen forty-eight When the Israelis passed Over our street. The house was built of stone With a courtyard inside Where, on a hot day, one ...read more

Chorus: Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, in die illa tremenda: Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra: Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem. Soprano and Chorus: Tremens...read more

Tenor: One ever hangs where shelled roads part. In this war He too lost a limb, But His disciples hide apart; And now the Soldiers bear with Him. Chorus: Agnus Dei, qui tollis...read more

Soldiers of heaven hold the sky, the morning breaks and shadows fly. Follow the orders of the poor, your master is the laborer who rules the world with truth and grace. Deal...read more

The people are the heroes now. Behemoth pulls the peasant’s plow. When we look up, the fields are white with harvest in the morning light and mountain ranges one by one ...read more