Through A Broken Pane

Through A Broken Pane

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This piece represents the profound heartache that inevitably accompanies the feeling of missing a beloved one so very much, yet you find yourself unable to embrace them often. The text draws inspiration from the image of a delicate flower that sits silently and still in a dimly lit room, where it constantly struggles to reach out for the life-giving warmth of the sun. Only a sliver of light manages to shine through a broken pane of a window, where the sun also makes its valiant attempt to provide comfort and reassurance for the delicate flower, nurturing it as it strives to bloom to its fullest potential. This cycle of longing and desire repeats daily, serving only to remind both the flower and the sun of the bittersweet pains of hope and heartache they each endure.

Time Length: Approximately 4 minutes 17 seconds (with the exception of aleotoric sections that could lengthen the overall time)

Instrumentation: SSAATTBB, piano

Downloadable Contents: Score; parts

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Through a broken pane a pin of light

Light that aches for embrace

A drapery of wavy distance shades a flower

Its pedals left yearning for grace

But only a young lost flower struggling to bloom

Reaching for her hand

I’ll nurture you through and though

(Her nurture not forgotten)

But a drapery of wavy distance brings night too soon

Darkness!

Light!

The lights time gone by

The flower’s left behind

Yet their aching will meet again

Her nurture not forgotten

Through a broken pane

Light