Two Haiku
translations of Japanese Haiku
Based on texts by Santoka and Issa
Currents, Fred Cohen, conducting, March 1999
Boston Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble, Larry Bell, conducting, May 2, 1999
Two Haiku was commissioned by Fred Cohen for the Currents ensemble and first performed in Richmond, Virginia, in March 1999 at the America Haiku Association conference. It is written for the “Pierrot” ensemble and uses texts by Santoka and Issa, respectively.
1. Alone silently
the bamboo shoot
becomes a bamboo
2. out from darkness
back into darkness
affairs of the cat
More Vocal and Choral Works
The Prism of the Lyre, Opus 197 1
Seven Principles for SATB chorus acapella No. 7, Opus 193 2
In Common Things for soprano and piano, Opus 190 no. 2 4
Music when soft voices die, no. 1, Opus 190 no. 1 5
The Shadows Fall So Gently, Opus 181 6
Parables of Love and Death, Opus 173 8
A Hymnbook for Congregational Singing, Opus 169 9
The Harp at Nature's Advent, Opus 167 10
Thou God of Love, Thou Ever Blessed, Opus 164 11
Blest Are the Sons of Peace, Opus 16 12
O God our Help in Ages Past, Opus 162 13
Awake our Souls, Away our Fears, Opus 160 15
Domenica a Filicudi, Opus 158 17
The Lone Wild Bird, Opus 154 18
Once to Every Soul and Nation, Opus 144 21
Arrangements of Congregational Music for Thanksgiving, Opus 142 22
I'm Just A Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Opus 131 25
And Am I Born to Die?, Opus 129 26
Fancies, a cycle of five songs for Tenor and Piano, Opus 117 31
Revels, A cycle of ten songs for Baritone Voice and Piano, Opus 114 32
The Echolocations of Cellos, Opus 108 34
The Seasons, A Cantata, Opus 101 39
Summer: The Fragrant Pathway of Eternity, Opus 100 40
Spring: In the Pendulum of My Body, Opus 99 41
Duet from Holy Ghosts, Opus 93 42
Winter: Exaltations of Snowy Stars, Opus 929 43
Unchanging Love, a hymn based on a text by Romulus Linney, Opus 87 44
Fall: Autumnal Raptures, a song cycle for Tenor and Harp, Opus 86 46
Dream within a Dream, Opus 79 47
Songs of Time and Eternity, Opus 64 48
Shakespeare Sonnets, Opus 58 49
Ten Poems of William Blake, Opus 53 50
“The Immortal Beloved”, Opus 50 51
A Cry Against the Twilight, Opus 42 52
“Four Sacred Songs”, Opus 20 53
“Prologue” and “The End of the World”, Opus 14 55
Poems of Our Climate, Opus 9 56
Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination, Opus 8 57