ALTO RHAPSODIES for Orchestra and Contralto….
1. Alto Rhapsody / High, pure, soar, sear, white, high, fly / My orchestra snores !
2. For the womb the seed sighs / Turn and thrash and disappear / The high silence drowned .
3. ( as ” PRIOSUN CLUAIN MEALA” ) Just one year ago / I strutted to Ardpatrick / To lace my bonnet. / / Next Friday they will / Shove my head upon a pike / Snowing on my soul.
4. Suppose God is light ? / My eye tries to see itself / Soft horns! Clarinets !
5. Whisper ” Tramonto ” / Tiptoe through my dark window / Well is this, then, death ?