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Year Written: 2013

Songs and Song Cycles

The Indigo Rooftop of the Night (A Setting of the Persian Poetry of
Fatemeh Keshavarz )

Soprano, alto flute, viola, cello

Duration: 11:00

Theme: Collaboration:Multicultural/Persian

Premiered By
 Jessika Kenney, soprano; ACA Composers Now! Symphony Space, NYC, 2013

Text: Fatemeh Keshavarz
Spread open like a field
So beautiful – the indigo rooftop of the night
So filled with love…so close! So close…
With its repeated stars scattered over the untroubled dark
Like sparks of laughter
Flying in the warmth of togetherness after separation….

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