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What Remains? (2008) Robert Graves has said that the primary task of the poet is to contemplate what remains of the beloved once the beloved has gone. I chose to take him at his word, and pretty directly. The musical setting was inspired by the call and response singing I’ve heard over the years at the different incarnations of vielles et cornemuses festivals in Quebec.

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What Remains?

What remains of my beloved, the one I loved? (rpt)

The crops in the field are no longer our own,
The blood in our bodies the heart would bemoan.

What remains of my beloved, the one I loved? (rpt)

The fields of this harvest have all been mown,
The seeds of our destiny all been sown.

What remains of my beloved, the one I loved? (rpt)

The waters of ocean are barren as bone,
The fortunes of men have sunk like a stone.

What remains of my beloved, the one I loved? (rpt)

Making a world that we cannot condone,
Leaving a world that our children atone.

What remains of my beloved, the one I loved? (rpt)

And now that the darkness around us has grown,
The path we would follow cannot be known.

What remains of my beloved, the one I loved? (rpt)
What remains?

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from Where The Fish Are, released March 8, 2020
vocalist Steve Jobe; chorus comprised of everyone who participated in the recording.

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Steve Jobe Providence, Rhode Island

Born in 1955 in Mt. Vernon Ohio, the same hometown as Daniel Decatur Emmett, the composer of the song, “Dixie.” I settled into RI for good in 1984 and began composing soon after. I have a respectable body of work: two operas, a couple of concertos both commissioned, a cantata that was commissioned, a string quartet that won an award in 2006.
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