repertoire fridays: Michael Oberhauser "Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil" (2007)

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Michael Oberhauser (b. 10 January 1985) “Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil” (2007)

Performed by mezzo-soprano Erica Haman and pianist Kayme Henkel.

poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889)

“I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.

And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.”