Product Description
Heraclitus by Charles Villiers Stanford
Performed by David Warin Solomons as the one-man choir dwsChorale.
Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 310 BC c. 240 BC) was a Greek poet, critic and bibliographer, of Libyan birth.
He is considered the most influential figure of the Alexandrian school.
He wrote this poem in memory of his friend Heraclitus.
Επ τις, ρκλειτε, τεν μρον ς δ με δκρυ
γαγεν μνσθην δ σσκις μφτεροι
λιον λσχ κατεδσαμεν. λλ σ μν που,
ξεν λικαρνησε, τετρπαλαι σποδι,
α δ τεα ζουσιν ηδνες, σιν πντων
ρπακτς δης οκ π χερα βαλε.
2 millennia later, William Johnson Cory, 1823-92 wrote this version of the poem:
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead;
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed;
I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky.
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,
A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
... and this was set to music by Charles Villiers Stanford.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.