Only if I have come to be a whole
For soprano and saxophone quartet
May 31, 2024 Moss church, Ny Musikk
Berit Norbakken– soprano
NoXaS saxophone quartet
Only if I have come to be a whole
Is there only
only one
Is there only
only one
Only one life
There is only one life
only one great life
I can enter into it
Only if I first come to unity with myself
Unity with my unity with myself
With myself
If I only come to be united with myself
Only if I have come to be a whole
If I only come to be united with myself
Only if I have come to be a whole
//Only if I´ve come to be //
Only if I have come to be one
What is man?
How can it be that such a
such a thing as man is in this world
that chaos that never
never grows
How can nature suffer this sour grape
amidst her sweet array
How can nature tolerate
To the plants I say,
I was once like you
To the
The plants
I say
I was once
Once like you
You, I, Be
How can it be
To the plants I say
Can it be
And to the pure stars
How
How can it be
You, I
//I will become like you in another world//
There is a silence, a forgetting of all
A forgetting of all existence
All existence
A forgetting of all existence
And to the stars I say
“I will be like you in another world”
To the stars I say
“I was once like you”
To the pure stars I say
“I will become like you”
There is a silence
A forgetting of all
A silence, a forgetting of all existence
When we feel we have lost everything
What is man?
How can it be that such a
such a thing as man is in this world
that chaos that never
How can it be that such a
such a thing as man
is in the world
that chaos that never
//never//
(Texts by Henrik Hellstenius and from HYPERION by Friedrich Hölderlin)