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Once



Voorblad Einde Ensemble: SATB Choir, Violin and Violoncello
Published: February 2017 (Rev. 1983
Text: Bertus Aafjes
Duration: ± 9.10 minutes

ISBN: 9789461330857
ISMN: 9790803557016

In addition to Ditty before and after (see here) Once is one of my first compositions that survived the trash bin. It is based on a poem by Bertus Aafjes (Dutch poet, 1914-1983) and written for a mixed choir (SATB) that I directed at the time. In 2017, I modified some attacks for the choir considered too difficult, and I added a violin and a cello - which I considered an enrichment.

This is the poem:

Once your nudity was tardy like summer hours.
And often loose as a deer or hind.
Sometimes only the pureness of an animal,
or from another animal the savage, the blind.

Or the flying over from a flock of birds. Then your chest was almost empty, the spotless.
Or from the goblet the shameless swings.
So sometimes you were the wilting of the roses.

I who once was looking for heaven up there.
Drizzled by star shine and silver light.

I finally became an earthly angel.
I found the sky next to me.
When I gathered you in my arms
and blended on wings into you.

Below you can get an impression of this composition in its latest version.

I advise you not to listen to the music via a mobile phone, tablet or laptop. That could turn out to be a disappointment, unless you use very good headphones. For a reasonably acceptable experience, a computer with a good sound system is required!

Please note:
This music is an electronic representation and is therefore not comparable to a human version! For example, one does not hear the words of the sung text by the choir, but only "aah" and "ooh". The instruments, on the other hand, are quite realistic thanks to the latest electronics. It remains, however, that the whole of the interpretation of the conductors/musicians is missing and therefore may sound somewhat sterile.
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© The complete copyright of the music (also this electronic version) has been deposited. This means that you can only listen but not use it nor partially, nor completely for your own purposes. Let alone that you use it for your own performances or productions. For citation rights please contact the publisher and the Buma/Stemra organization in the Netherlands.

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