LE PONT MIRABEAU
for SATB & piano
Music by: Nicholas Wanstall
Text by: Guillaume Apollinaire
Commissioned and premiered by Modern Sound Collective in 2024.
Heavily influenced by composers of French art song, Le Pont Mirabeau is a soaring, lush new work for choir, piano, and soloist by Nicholas Wanstall on the famous Guillaume Apollinaire poem of the same name.
Le pont Mirabeau
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l’onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
L’amour s’en va comme cette eau courante
L’amour s’en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l’Espérance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heur
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
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MSC0016 – Le Pont Mirabeau – SCORE PERUSAL PDF
PROGRAM NOTE:
Le Pont Mirabeau by Nicholas Wanstall is a setting of Guillaume Apollinaire’s famous poem of the same name. This text speaks on themes of sadness and pain that are an inevitable part of the passing of time and the experience of love. Written with short verses followed by a repeating refrain, this poem lends it’s self very well to musical settings, and has been set by various composers and songwriters over the last century. This particular setting was heavily influenced by the harmonic and melodic language of a variety of French art songs, with an emphasis on singable and satisfying vocal writing.
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