You, Darkness

Song for Soprano, Violin and Piano

by Gisela Ruhmer Scott

This composition was originally performed in Berlin in 2007

at the Free University International Summer Program (FUBIS)

for new, contemporary music

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You darkness of whom I am born,

I love you more than the flame

that limits the world

to the circle it illumines

and excludes all the rest.

But the dark embraces everything,

shapes and shadows,

creatures and me,

peoples, nations just as they are.

It lets me imagine a great presence

stirring beside me.

I believe in the night.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

Rilke’s poem has been translated by the composer

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