Title: Domenica a Filicudi, op. 158
Commissioned by: Joan, Mary, and Cathy Collins
Dedication: in memory of Deborah Collins
Date of composition: 2019
Instrumentation: soprano voice, viola, and piano
Text: based on a poem by Deborah Collins
Performance time: ca. 5 minutes
First performance: May 12, 2019, Christie Lee Gibson-voice, David Wallace-viola, Larry Bell-piano
TEXT
Sunday on Filicudi (Domenica a Filicudi)
Aeolus frolicking in the fronds,
Caressing the bougainvillea,
Cavorting in the soft ripples of the blue Tyrrhenian
sea.
Swallows dipping, the occasional raven croaking,
All else is quiet.
My world is at peace.
-Deborah Collins, 2016
