Song to the Moon (La Luna), Z. Randall Stroope | Dallas Chamber Choir

Z. Randall Stroope's "Song to the Moon" is an impassioned melancholy longing for and reminiscing of togetherness, heightened by flute and oboe meanderings.
Song to the Moon (La Luna) (2010), Z Randall Stroope (Live)
Dallas Chamber Choir, "Walden: Nature Speaks" concert series
Jon L. Culpepper, Founding Artistic Director & Conductor
Kelly Bolam Shea, Flute
Juan Flores-Johnson, Oboe
Jordan Peek, Collaborative Piano
Video: Tony Antoneo Hernandez
Audio: Bradley Prakope, Daniel Nix
Song to the Moon (La Luna)
[paraphrased and inspired by Jaroslov Kvapil, 1868-1950; a portion of the text also written by Z. Randall Stroope, 1953-]
La Luna,
Your light sees through endless time.
Tell, O tell me where my love lies.
O moon, e’er you pass, wake my dreaming lover.
I am waiting, I am calling.
Tell him come, O moon.
Light his place.
Moon help him,
Help him remember and dream of me,
Tell him who is waiting, who is longing!
I am waiting,
Longing!
Tell him come, O moon.
Help to remember our laughter and tears,
mem’ries of summer nights.
Help him remember our triumphs and fears,
May this remembrance waken him!
Tell that I am holding firm for at least awhile.
Tell him, moon.
Moon, O moon don’t disappear,
O moon, silver moon in the deep, dark sky,
Your light sees through endless time,
Tell, O tell me where my love lies.
Tell him come! Tell him come!
Tell him, O moon.