The Little Match Girl Passion

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Little Match Girl.indd 1 2018-06-05 2:19 PM FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Welcome to the last program in our 35TH season. uncanny ability to set text in highly imaginative It reflects both where we’ve come from and hints and unusual ways that are at the same time at future directions. appropriate and inevitable, two qualities rarely found together in new vocal music. Programming that pairs a distinguished Cana- dian composer with their international counter- Looking to the future, Soundstreams has part is nothing new to Soundstreams. For nearly become increasingly interested in breaking down 15 years we co-produced with CBC’s Two New some of the barriers we have all inherited from Hours a series based in the Glenn Gould Studio the traditions of Western classical music. that did just that. There was no one formula or Both works on tonight’s program require singers rationale for these pairings, but they ran the to acquire modest skills as percussionists, and gamut from affinity to complete contrast. the Lang explores the fertile terrain between “concert” music and “staged” works in intriguing Though the Glenn Gould Studio series came to and provocative ways. an end in 2007, the concept of pairing has remained one of the pillars of Soundstreams As they say, “stay tuned”. We hope tonight’s programming. And while we continue to feature explorations will intrigue and provoke you substantial new and existing instrumental works, sufficiently to join us next year for our 36TH it is perhaps in vocal music where we have season! particularly made our mark. David Lang and James Rolfe are soul mates – not that their music sounds the same – it doesn’t! But in both composers the relationships between word and music are so inextricably linked that we cannot imagine it any other way. They share an Lawrence Cherney

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Little Match Girl.indd 2-3 2018-06-05 2:19 PM THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL PASSION

CAST

Vania Chan, Soprano Andrea Ludwig, Mezzo-Soprano Colin Ainsworth, Tenor Stephen Hegedus, Bass-Baritone Michael Bridge, Accordion

PROGRAM

James Rolfe I Think We Are Angels (b. 1961, Canada) 1. The end of the world 11. A lovesong 2. Shulamite 12. I love you 3. Sensual passion 13. Evensong 4. Love 14. I am sad 5. When you come 15. Inward, into the light 6. I think we are angels (solo) 16. Parted 7. I think we are angels (ensemble) 17. My blue piano 8. O your hands 18. I know 9. Giselheer as a boy 19. Friday night 10. Night secret Proud to support SoundMakers. David Lang the little match girl passion (b. 1957, USA) 1. come, daughter 9. have mercy, my god 2. it was terribly cold 10. she lighted another match We are working together with Soundstreams 3. dearest heart 11. from the sixth hour to make a difference in our communities. 4. an old apron 12. she again rubbed a match 5. penance and remorse 13. when it is time for me to go 6. lights were shining 14. in the dawn of morning 7. patience, patience! 15. we sit and cry 8. ah! perhaps

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Little Match Girl.indd 4-5 2018-06-05 2:19 PM THE LITTLE COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES MATCH GIRL PASSION PROGRAM ESSAY By David Jaeger

The celebrated American composer David Lang (b. conclusion and unfolded it, as Christian composers 1957) composed the little matchgirl passion in 2007, have traditionally done in musical settings of the on a co-commission from the Carnegie Hall Passion of Jesus. Corporation in New York and The Perth Theatre and “The word Passion comes from the Latin word for Concert Hall in Australia. Conductor Paul Hillier and suffering. There is no Bach in my piece and there is his Theatre of Voices gave the World premiere of no Jesus – rather the suffering of the Little Match the work late in 2007 at Carnegie Hall. In 2008 the Girl has been substituted for Jesus’, (I hope) was awarded the Pulitzer little matchgirl passion elevating her sorrow to a higher plane.” Prize in Music. Lang subsequently adapted the work for performance by choir. It was Hillier’s Lawrence Cherney’s objective in designing tonight’s original interpretation of the work that struck program, was to pair Lang’s unique setting with a Soundstreams’ founder and artistic director, Canadian work possessing an equivalent David Lang James Rolfe Lawrence Cherney as a powerful musical achievement in the musical illumination of texts. expression that he wanted to share with the Cherney turned to Toronto composer James Rolfe David Lang is one of the most highly esteemed Toronto composer James Rolfe has been Soundstreams audience. (b. 1961), himself a celebrated composer for the and performed American composers writing commissioned and performed by ensembles, voice. Rolfe’s operas have been widely performed orchestras, choirs, theatres, and opera In his program note, Lang says, “My piece is called today. His works have been performed around by several opera companies: the COC, Toronto companies in Canada, the USA, Europe, Asia, and it sets Hans the world in most of the great concert halls. the little matchgirl passion Masque Theatre, Tapestry Opera, Vancouver Australia, and New Zealand. He has received a Christian Andersen’s story, in The Little Match Girl Opera, Edmonton Opera, and Pacific Opera Lang’s simple song #3, written as part of his Guggenheim Fellowship, the K. M. Hunter the format of Bach’s , St. Matthew Passion Victoria. Rolfe has worked with award-winning score for Paolo Sorrentino’s acclaimed film Music Award, the Louis Applebaum Composers interspersing Andersen’s narrative with my versions librettists: André Alexis, George Elliott Clarke, Anna Youth, received many honors in 2016, including Award, the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber of texts of the crowd and character responses in Chatterton, Paul Bentley, Morris Panych, Steven Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Critics Music, SOCAN’s Jan V. Matejcek Concert the Bach. The libretto is by me, after texts by H.C. Heighton. Choice nominations, among others. Music Award, a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and Andersen, H.P. Paull (the first translator of the story Lang’s the little match girl passion won the 2008 the Outstanding Choral Work Award from the into English, in 1872,) Picander (the nom de plume Rolfe’s new composition, I Think We Are Angels Pulitzer Prize for Music. Lang has also been the Association of Canadian Choral Communities. of Christian Friedrich Henrici, the librettist of the was co-commissioned for Soundstreams by recipient of the Rome Prize, Le Chevalier des Bach,) and the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Michael and Sonia Koerner and Stanley H. Witkin, The Queen of Puddings Music Theatre and it receives its World premiere production on Arts et des Lettres, and Musical America’s 2013 Company production of Mr. Rolfe’s opera “What drew me to is that the The Little Match Girl this occasion. The work is a cycle of nineteen songs Composer of the Year. Lang’s tenure as Carnegie Beatrice Chancy played to sold-out houses and strength of the story lies not in its plot, but in the with words by the Jewish-German poet, Hall’s 2013–2014 Richard and Barbara Debs rave reviews in Toronto, Dartmouth, and fact that all its parts – the horror and the beauty – Else (1869–1945), who was associated Composer’s Chair saw his critically acclaimed Edmonton. The company later produced Inês, are constantly suffused with their opposites. The Lasker-Schüler with the Blue Rider group of expressionist artists festival collected stories showcase different which was nominated for a Dora Award. Three girl’s bitter present is locked together with the such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Franz modes of storytelling in music. masques–Orpheus and Eurydice, Aeneas and sweetness of her past memories, her poverty is Marc. Rolfe writes that, “Lasker-Schüler created a Recent premieres include his opera the loser, Dido, and Europa–were premiered by The suffused with her hopefulness. There is a kind of body of poetry which dealt with romantic and which opened the 2016 Next Wave Festival at Toronto Masque Theatre to critical and naïve equilibrium between suffering and hope. sensual love, as well as spirituality and Judaism. the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and for which audience acclaim. Elijah’s Kite, an opera for “There are many ways to tell this story. One could Only weeks after being awarded Germany’s highest Lang served as composer, librettist and stage children, was co-produced in New York by convincingly tell it as a story about faith, or as an literary prize in 1933, she was accosted by Nazi director, the public domain for 1000 singers at Tapestry Opera and the Manhattan School of allegory about poverty. What has always interested thugs in the streets of Berlin. She immediately fled, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, his Music, and given its Canadian premiere before me, however, is that Andersen tells his story as a first to Switzerland, and finally to Jerusalem, where chamber opera anatomy theater at Los Angeles the Governor-General at Rideau Hall. His opera kind of parable, drawing on religious and moral she died in 1945.” The songs, Rolfe continues, Opera and at the Prototype Festival in New Swoon was premiered by the Canadian Opera equivalency between the suffering of the poor girl describe a journey: “from the youthful celebration of York, and the concerto man made for the Company, which commissioned a new opera, and the suffering of Jesus. The girl suffers, is physical, sensual love, we travel through loneliness ensemble So Percussion and a consortium of Crush, mounted in a workshop production at The scorned by the crowd, dies and is transfigured. I and a yearning for God, finally arriving at an orchestras, including the BBC Symphony and Banff Centre in July 2015. started wondering what secrets could be unlocked acceptance of suffering and death.” the Los Angeles Philharmonic. from this story if one took its Christian nature to its Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can.

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Little Match Girl.indd 6-7 2018-06-05 2:19 PM ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Vania Chan Andrea Ludwig Colin Ainsworth Stephen Hegedus Michael Bridge Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Tenor Bass-Baritone Accordion

Canadian lyric coloratura soprano Born and raised in Regina, Canadian tenor Colin Ainsworth Hailed by the Ottawa Citizen as a Lauded as “a wizard of the Vania Chan received her Master of Saskatchewan, Juno-nominated has distinguished himself with his singer possessing “…an instrument accordion,” Michael Bridge is Music in Classical Voice from the mezzo soprano Andrea Ludwig is exceptional singing and diverse of rare beauty, majestic and internationally-renowned for his Manhattan School of Music in New an artist of tremendous depth, repertoire. This versatile and commanding from the bottom of his warm stage personality, York, and graduated Summa Cum musicality and scope. Her charm, thrilling tenor has worked across range to the top…”, bass-baritone stereotype-smashing versatility, Laude from York University, warmth and easy sense of humour the world with opera companies Stephen Hegedus is frequently heard and blazing virtuosity. Named Toronto, receiving a B.F.A. with are perfect for the stage and her and orchestras and is acclaimed with leading orchestras and opera one of CBC’s “30 Hot Classical Specialized Honours in Music. vibrant musicality makes her a for his interpretations of the major companies in Canada and abroad. Musicians Under 30”, he made favourite to all her audiences. Her Classical and Baroque tenor roles. his solo orchestral debut with the Performance highlights include the His operatic roles include the title versatility and ability to interpret Boston Pops and gives over 100 role of Madame Herz in Mozart’s An avid supporter of new works, role of Le nozze di Figaro, many styles are impeccable. concerts per year in Europe and “The Impresario”, the goddess he has appeared in the world Leporello (Don Giovanni), Colline the Americas. His debut solo Diane in Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Hailed by Halifax Chronicle Herald premieres of John Estacio’s Lillian (La Bohème), Guglielmo (Così fan album, Overture, was named CBC Aricie” both with VOICEBOX: critic Stephen Pedersen as having Alling at Vancouver Opera, Stuart tutte), Albert (Werther), Nick Album of the Week. Opera in Concert, Princess Mi in “tones of silver and gold,” Andrea MacRae’s The Assassin Tree at the Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), Lehár “The Land of Smiles” with has appeared with the Canadian Edinburgh International Festival, Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia), More than a classical musician, Toronto Operetta Theatre, the role Opera Company in numerous Victor Davies’ The Transit of Venus Talbot (Maria Stuarda), Sprecher Michael simply describes his of the Ad Exec in Soundstreams’ roles including Nireno in Handel’s with Manitoba Opera, and Rufus (Die Zauberflöte), Masetto (Don repertoire as ‘concert music’ – presentation of Brian Current’s Julius Ceasar, the Second Niece in Wainwright’s Prima Donna at Giovanni) and Angelotti (Tosca). encompassing baroque, “Airline Icarus: A New Opera”, the Britten’s Peter Grimes, Flora in Sadler’s Wells in London and at He has been engaged by the classical, and contemporary soprano role in Alice Ho’s “Venom The Turn of the Screw, Moira in the Luminato Festival. Other past Teatro Municipal de Santiago, works, plus many of his own of Love”, produced by Little Pear Paul Ruder’s The Handmaid’s opera engagements have included Canadian Opera Company, concert arrangements of folk Garden Collective, and more Tale, and Liesgen in Bach’s Coffee appearances with the Canadian Vancouver Opera, L’Opéra de music. Prolific in working with recently, a leading role in Purcell’s Cantata. Opera Company, Chicago Opera Montréal, Opera Atelier, Pacific composers, Michael has given “The Fairy Queen.” Theatre, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Victoria, Edmonton Opera, over 40 world premieres. Very much in demand for L’Opéra de Français, Opera Atelier, Opera Columbus, Opera Hamilton In Canada, Vania has performed contemporary opera, Andrea has He performs solo or with Pacific Opera Victoria, Edmonton and Against the Grain Theatre. with Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, been involved in many of Tapestry orchestra, and with his two Opera, Royal Opera (London) and Toronto Operetta Theatre, Toronto New Opera’s projects including A prize winner at the Lyndon ensembles – Bridge+Wolak and the Greek National Opera. Masque Theatre, TrypTych, Halifax their LibLab and Opera Briefs, as Woodside Oratorio Solo Ladom Ensemble –and has toured Summer Opera Festival, and well as the world premiere of Juliet Also a prolific concert singer, Mr. Competition, hosted by the Oratorio Poland, France, Italy, the U.K., Opera by Request. Palmer’s Shelter at Edmonton Ainsworth has appeared with the Society of New York, Mr. Ecuador, the USA and in every Opera in 2012 and Toronto in June Cincinnati Symphony, Montreal Hegedus’ extensive concert Canadian province. Her operatic roles include 2014. Andrea was Nada in the Symphony, Toronto Symphony experience includes appearances Zerbinetta (Strauss’ Ariadne auf Michael is pursuing doctoral multi Dora-nominated Queen of Orchestra, Ensemble Pygmalion, with the Vancouver and Seattle Naxos), Cleopatra (Handel’s Giulio studies in accordion performance Puddings’ production of Ana Vancouver Symphony, Calgary Symphonies (Mozart’s Requiem) , Cesare), Olympia (Offenbach’s Les at the University of Toronto, with Sokolovic’s Svadba (The Wedding) Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Winnipeg Symphony (Haydn’s Contes d’Hoffmann), Susanna Joseph Macerollo. His first that had it’s world premiere in Orchestra of San Francisco, Music Creation), the Grant Park Festival (Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro), accordion was purchased at a Toronto in June 2011. She reprised of the Baroque in Chicago, Mercury (Dvorak’s The Spectre’s Bride, Marie (Donizetti’s La Fille du garage sale for $5 when he was the role of Nada in France, Serbia Baroque in Houston, Les Violons Brahms’ Requiem), l’Orchestre Régiment), Lucia (Donizetti’s Lucia five, and two decades later, he is and Ireland in 2012; at Edmonton du Roy in Montreal, and Tafelmusik symphonique de Montréal di Lammermoor), Gretel (Hump- redefining the perception of his Opera and Philadelphia Opera in Baroque Orchestra in Toronto. (Bernstein’s A Quiet Place), the erdinck’s Hansel and Gretel), traditional instrument. 2013; and at the prestigious Florida Orchestra (Beethoven’s Nanetta (Verdi’s Falstaff), Armida Festival D’Aix en Provence in Symphony No. 9), the Aldeburgh (Handel’s Rinaldo), Morgana 2015. Festival (Bach’s B-minor Mass) (Handel’s Alcina) and Anne Trulove and l’Orchestre Métropolitain du (Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress). Grand Montréal. 8 2017-2018 CONCERT SERIES SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 9

Little Match Girl.indd 8-9 2018-06-05 2:19 PM CREATIVE TEAM CREATIVE TEAM

Jennifer Tarver John Hess Susie Burpee Andjelija Djuric Kim Purtell Creative Consultant Music Director Movement Artist Costume Designer Lighting Designer

Jennifer Tarver is a Canadian John Hess is the recognized Susie Burpee creates ‘fully Andjelija’s recent projects Kimberly is a Toronto-based director and creator working authority on contemporary opera human characters, struggling for include costume design for lighting designer for theatre, internationally in both theatre and song in Canada. He has connection’ (The Toronto Star). Fujiwara Dance Inventions’ dance and opera. Her designs and opera. She has directed for been involved with the creation She choreographs for contem- Moving Parts and Eunoia, have been critically acclaimed the major theatre companies of of new productions for the porary dance and theatre, and Pounds Per Square Inch both on the national and the region including the Canadian Opera Company and her work has received Dora Performance’s The Art Of Peace international stage. They have Tarragon, Canadian Stage has collaborated with virtually Mavor Moore Awards for and Apology Project, set and been seen across Canada, the Company, Nightwood Theatre, every contemporary opera Outstanding Choreography and costume design for Necessary United States, the United and the Stratford Shakespeare company in Canada. He was the Performance. A former Angel’s A City and Necessary Kingdom, the Netherlands, Festival. Over the past five co-founder and co-artistic company dancer for Dancemak- Angel and Blumouth’s A Party Prague, China, Taiwan, Hong seasons at Stratford her works director of the Queen of ers and Le Groupe Dance Lab, Game. Andjelija enjoyed Kong and Russia. She has have included Waiting for Godot, Puddings Music Theatre, for she is also a past recipient of the designing set and costumes for designed for Pacific Opera The Homecoming, Krapp’s Last which he was awarded a Ruby K.M. Hunter Artist Award for a number of opera and theatre Victoria, Manitoba Theatre Tape, Zastrozzi and King of from Opera Canada with Dance. Her work examines the projects with Jennifer Tarver at U Centrem Opera Philadelphia, Thieves. Her original works Co-Artistic Director Dáirine Ní intersections of creator and of T, The Royal Conservatory, Canadian Stage Company, include Not Faust, History Play Mheadhra. performer, and the collision of George Brown College and Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, and the award-winning She’s chance and craft. Originally from Queen Of Puddings and worked Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in John is equally in demand as a Gone Away, a collaboration with Winnipeg, Susie is a graduate of with numerous Toronto theatre Bad Times, Necessary Angel, vocal coach and pianist. He choreographer Susanna Hood. the Professional Program of companies such as Theatre Tapestry New Opera, and many works regularly with Ben Contemporary Dancers/ Smith Gilmour, Modern Times, others. Kimberly is the recipient Heppner and many other University of Winnipeg (BAHons). Pleaides Theatre, Roseneath of three Dora Mavor Moore Canadian singers and instrumen- Susie teaches professional level Theatre Canadian Stage to name Awards and 20 nominations for talists. John is heard regularly on classes, facilitates creative a few. Andjelija studied outstanding Lighting Design, and CBC Radio and has recorded process, and rehearsal directs Scenography at The National was the 2005 recipient of the numerous CDs, including the devised work. Theatre School Of Canada, Pauline McGibbon Award. complete vocal works of Utrecht School Of Art and Canadian composer Harry Andalusian Centre For Theatre. Somers. She is a recipient of Pauline As a member of the music faculty McGibbon Award. at the Western University, John directs the Graduate programs in Collaborative Piano. He holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Michigan.

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Little Match Girl.indd 10-11 2018-06-05 2:19 PM TEXT

JAMES ROLFE I Think We Are Angels Text by Else Lasker-Schüler

1 The End Of The World 8 Oh, Your Hands There is a weeping in the world O! Let’s kiss deeply-- Oh, your hands How I do love them, as if the Good Lord had died. a longing knocks at the world are my children. your boyish hands, the two of them. His leaden shadow swoons of which we must surely die. All my toys and overflows His dismal grave. lay in their hollows. Come, let’s hide close together... I always play soldiers Life lies in every heart with your fingers, little riders, as if in a coffin. till they fall down.

2 Shulamite 9 Giselheer As A Boy O, at your sweet mouth I learned with blossoming sorrow, From my eyelash hangs a star I’d like to play with you. too much of bliss! and drift in space, it’s so bright --I have no homeland-- Already I feel Gabriel’s lips in time, how shall I sleep-- Let’s play King and Prince. burning on my heart. in eternity, Oh, how your life beckons me! and my soul glows in the evening colours 10 Night Secret And I am undone of Jerusalem. I have chosen you From the holy spark of your body among all these stars. my heart sets its heavens alight. 3 Sensual Passion And I wake—a flower listening All my dreams hang from your gold. Your wicked mouth is my death chamber. My body glows hot beneath your breath. among the humming leaves. I have chosen you among all these stars. Its sweet narcotic fragrance It trembles like a young rose sends all my virtues to sleep. kissed by warm May showers. Our lips long to make honey, My senses reel, I drink from its well --I follow you into a wilderness of sin our shimmering nights flourish. and sink limply into its depths, and pluck fire lilies by the roadside stealing glimpses into hell. --even if I may never find my way home again. 11 A Lovesong Come to me in the night—we’ll sleep tangled Come to me in the night in seven-starred slippers, 4 Love together. veiled in love—come late into my tent. Rustling through our sleep, And my crooked smile plays I am so weary of waking alone. The moon rises into heaven’s dusty trunks. a fine breeze, silk, across the depths of your features Already in the dark of dawn a strange bird sings, Two rare creatures, we’ll seek peace in love like blossoms trembling and worlds While my dreams still wrestle with me. In the high bamboo beyond the reach of this world. over us. nestle with us. Flowers bloom by the springs And I am carried homeward Rustling through our sleep colouring themselves with your everlasting eyes... on your breath a fine breeze, silk, through enchanted fairytales the age-old dream 12 I Love You and buried sagas. blesses us both. I love you Your lips are opening... and find you the world is deaf, 5 When You Come even though the day grows dark. the world is blind Let’s hide day in the chalice of night, So will our night be-- All my life long even the clouds we who long for the night. our golden bodies long to kiss. until now and the leaves-- Our bodies are golden stars I keep falling from night to night. I have wandered searching. Only we—made that long to kiss and kiss. All heaven flowers thick with sparkling love. of golden dust-- I love you! Do you smell the roses sleeping Our bodies long to kiss and kiss. exist! I love you! on the dark grass? I love you!

6, 7 I Think We Are Angels 13 Evensong When we gaze at each other, We are circled by stars Onto a young rosebush Angels sing from on high: Our eyes blossom. And fly out of this world. falls a soft rain from heaven “Today is God’s name day, And we are amazed I think we are angels. and the world grows ever more abundant. He who knows all that shall come to pass.” At the miracles we create. O my God, my only God, And I can’t understand them, And all is sweetness. I thirst and cry out for you I, who beneath their roof among all your blessings. keep waking in sorrow.

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Little Match Girl.indd 12-13 2018-06-05 2:19 PM 14 I Am Sad TEXT Your kisses darken on my mouth-- the withered rose of their loins. you no longer love me. Our eyes are half-closed like dying heavens. But how you once came-- DAVID LANG blue for paradise. The moon has grown old. the little match girl passion The night no longer watches. My heart splashed Text by David Lang after H.C. Andersen, H.P. Paull, Picander and Saint Matthew in your sweet fountain. You barely remember me-- where then shall I take my heart? 1. Come, daughter Now I must paint it, like those ladies who redden Come, daughter Who, daughter Help me, daughter Why, daughter Help me cry Guiltless daughter 15 Inward, Into the Light Look, daughter Patient daughter I always think of death. You are my secret home, Where, daughter Gone Nobody loved me. and I want nothing more. What, daughter

I wish I were a quiet picture How I long to blossom on an altar, and all in me were extinguished. into your heart’s blue skies-- 2. It was terribly cold This dreamy coloured sunset I lay down nothing but soft paths It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last two carriages that were rolling along at a terrible rate. stains my raw eyes with tears. around your pulsing house. evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast. One of the slippers she could not find, and a boy And who knows where to turn In the cold and the darkness, a poor little girl, with seized upon the other and ran away with it, saying when everywhere is you. bare head and naked feet, roamed through the that he could use it as a cradle, when he had children streets. It is true she had on a pair of slippers when of his own. So the little girl went on with her little she left home, but they were not of much use. naked feet, which were quite red and blue with the cold. 16 Parted They were very large, so large, indeed, that they had So the little girl went on. I always longed to tell you And your heart is my heavenly kingdom... belonged to her mother, and the poor little creature So the little girl went on. so many words of love-- let me look inside. had lost them in running across the street to avoid now you search without rest You are pure glistening mint for lost wonders. and you daydream so tenderly. 3. Dearest heart But when my music box plays, I always longed to tell you Dearest heart Dearest heart we celebrate our wedding. so many words of love-- Dearest heart Dearest heart What did you do that was so wrong? What was Why is your sentence so hard? Oh, your sweet eyes why didn’t I? so wrong? are my favourite flowers. 4. In an old apron 17 My Blue Piano In an old apron she carried a number of matches, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the At home I have a blue piano Its keyboard is shattered-- and had a bundle of them in her hands. No one had picture of misery. The snowflakes fell on her long, fair but cannot play a single note. I cry for the dead blue thing. bought anything of her the whole day, nor had any one hair, which hung in curls on her shoulders, but she It stands in the dark of the cellar door, O dear angel, I eat such bitter bread— given her even a penny. Shivering with cold and hunger, regarded them not. ever since the world went rotten. please, for me, while I still live— though it be forbidden— 5. Penance and remorse Four hands of the stars play please open Heaven’s door. --the moon’s wife sang in her boat-- Penance and remorse All that I deserve is Now the rats dance and clatter. Tear my sinful heart in two What you have endured My teardrops Penance and remorse. May they fall like rain down upon your poor face Tear my sinful heart in two May they fall down like rain 18 I Know My penance My teardrops I know that soon I must die, You pick a flower to greet me-- My remorse Yet all the trees are radiant I loved it already in the bud. Here, daughter, here I am My penance After the longed-for kiss of July-- Yet I know that soon I must die. I should be bound as you were bound

My dreams have faded-- My breath hangs over God’s river-- Never before have I drawn such gloomy endings Softly I set my foot 6. Lights were shining In my books of rhyme. On the path to my eternal home. Lights were shining from every window, and there take home even a penny of money. Her father would was a savory smell of roast goose, for it was New certainly beat her; besides, it was almost as cold at 19 Friday Night year’s eve- yes, she remembered that. In a corner, home as here, for they had only the roof to cover The candles burn on Friday night, as we kneel on Friday evening before the flame: between two houses, one of which projected beyond them, through which the wind howled, although the Their flames rise up to heaven. Have mercy, dear Father, and soften their hearts. the other, she sank down and huddled herself largest holes had been stopped up with straw and rags. God sees even the smallest light. My body and soul shall fast on. together. She had drawn her little feet under her, but Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold. she could not keep off the cold; and she dared not go I fold my hands in the evening hour Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold. And hear the same thing from all Jewish lips home, for she had sold no matches, and could not

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Little Match Girl.indd 14-15 2018-06-05 2:19 PM 7. Patience, patience! 13. When it is time for me to go Patience When it is time for me to go Stay with me Patience! Don’t go from me When I am most scared When it is time for me to leave Stay with me Don’t leave me 8. Ah! perhaps When it is time for me to die Ah! perhaps a burning match might be some good, She rubbed another match on the wall. It burst into a if she could draw it from the bundle and strike it flame, and where its light fell upon the wall it became against the wall, just to warm her fingers. She drew as transparent as a veil, and she could see into the room. 14. In the dawn of morning one out-”scratch!” how it sputtered as it burnt! The table was covered with a snowy white table-cloth, In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, which was burnt. “She tried to warm herself,” said It gave a warm, bright light, like a little candle, as she on which stood a splendid dinner service, and a with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against some. No one imagined what beautiful things she held her hand over it. It was really a wonderful light. steaming roast goose, stuffed with apples and dried the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with It seemed to the little girl that she was sitting by a plums. And what was still more wonderful, the goose evening of the year; and the New year’s sun rose and her grandmother, on New-year’s day. large iron stove, with polished brass feet and a brass jumped down from the dish and waddled across the shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the

ornament. How the fire burned! and seemed so floor, with a knife and fork in its breast, to the little girl. stiffness of death, holding the matches in her hand, beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet Then the match went out, and there remained nothing one bundle of as if to warm them, when, lo! the flame of the match but the thick, damp, cold wall before her. went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the 15. We sit and cry remains of the half-burnt match in her hand. We sit and cry And call to you 9. Have mercy, my God Rest soft, daughter, rest soft Have mercy, my God. My eyes are crying. Where is your grave, daughter? Look here, my God. My heart is crying, my God. Where is your tomb? See my tears fall. See my tears fall. See my tears fall. Where is your resting place? Have mercy, my God. Have mercy. See my tears fall, my God. Rest soft, daughter, rest soft Rest soft 10. She lighted another match Rest soft She lighted another match, and then she found The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they Rest soft herself sitting under a beautiful Christmas tree. looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then she saw a Rest soft It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. one which she had seen through the glass door at the “Some one is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old You closed your eyes. rich merchant’s. Thousands of tapers were burning grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, I closed my eyes. upon the green branches, and colored pictures, like and who was now dead, had told her that when a star Rest soft those she had seen in the show-windows, looked down falls, a soul was going up to God. upon it all. The little one stretched out her hand towards them, and the match went out.

11. From the sixth hour From the sixth hour there was darkness over all the Eli, Eli. land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour she cried out:

12. She again rubbed a match She again rubbed a match on the wall, and the light grandmother there. And the matches glowed with a shone round her; in the brightness stood her old light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother, clear and shining, yet mild and loving in grandmother had never appeared so large or so her appearance. “Grandmother,” cried the little one, beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they “O take me with you; I know you will go away when both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the the match burns out; you will vanish like the warm earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor stove, the roast goose, and the large, glorious pain, for they were with God. Christmas tree.” And she made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her

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