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All About Love

composed by David Schiff

All About Love is a panoramic meditation on love as expressed in different times and languages and from different points of view: male and female, gay and straight, from youthful ardor to mature resignation. The cycle sets texts by Petrarch, Labé, Melville, Tsvetaeva, Keats, Proust and Bishop. For the Metropolis Ensemble performance, David Schiff expanded the orchestra with two additional strings, guitar, accordion and percussion.

• Sonnet 88
  by Petrarch
• Sonnet VII
  by Louise Labé
• A Bosom Friend
  from Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
• Poem
  by Marina Tsvetaeva
• Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
  by John Keats
• Swann's Way
  by Marcel Proust
• One Art
  by Elizabeth Bishop

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