«The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs» «Nowth upon Nacht» for (high) voice and piano texts from «Finnegans Wake» by James Joyce
Joan La Barbara (voice) William Winant (piano) California, Skywalker Music, July 1990
night by silent sailing night, Isobel, wildwoods eyes and primarose hair, quietly, all the woods so wild in mauves of moss and daphne dews how all so still she lay 'neath of the white thorn, child of tree like some lost happy leaf like blowing flower stilled as fain would she anon for soon again 'twill be, win me, woo me, wed me, ah! weary me deepy, now even calm lay sleeping night, Isobel, Sister Isobel, Saintette Isobel, Madame Isa Veuve La Belle.
nowth upon nacht, while in his tumbril Wachtman Havelook seequeerscenes, from yonsides of the choppy, punkt by his curserbog, went long the grassgross bumpinstrass that henders the pubbel to pass, stowing his bottle in a hole for at whet his whuskle to stench ecrooksman, sequestering for lover's lost pro- pertied offices the leavethings from allpurgers' night, og gneiss ogas gnasty, kikkers, brillers, knappers and bands, handsboon and strumpers, sminkysticks and eddiketsflaskers.