Souza-Bright Star (SP)-B/V/M/TVX

Using text from a sonnet by John Keats, Ricardo A. Coelho de Souza weaves together unique sonic textures in Bright Star by requiring the percussionist to play simultaneously on marimba, vibraphone and glockenspiel.

"Bright Star" uses this text from a sonnet by John Keats:

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art---
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priest-like task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors---
No---yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake forever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever---or else swoon to death.

Number of players - 2
Difficulty - Medium-Difficult
Instrumentation - Vibraphone, Marimba (5.0 octave), glockenspiel, Tenor (or Soprano) Voice