In That Part of the Young Year
for Mixed Chorus SATB a capella - Length: ca. 3’00”
Text by Dante Alighieri from Canto XXIV of “The Inferno”
translation by Robert Pinksy
(opening)
In that part of the young year when the sun
Goes under Aquarius to rinse his beams,
And the long nights already begin to wane
Toward half the day, and when the hoarfrost mimes
The image of her white sis-ter up-on the ground
But only a while, because her pen, it seems,
Is not sharp long—a peasant who has found
That he is running short of fod-der might rise
And go outside and see the fields have turned
To white, and slap his thigh, and back in the house
Pace grumbling here and there like some poor wretch
Who can’t see what to do;
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