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Cantata Singers
Scott Perkins, Composer and Guest Conductor
Noah Horn, Music Director

Friday, March 14, 2025
Sanders Theatre
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Scott Perkins: A Map to the Next World (Commission and World Premiere)

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Part 2: II. Four Bird-Songs

4. Extinct Birds
Noah Horn, tenor

Charles Harpur in his journals long ago
(written in hope and love, and never printed)
recorded the birds of his time’s forest—
birds long vanished with the fallen forest—
described in copperplate on unread pages.
The scarlet satin-bird, swung like a lamp in berries,
he watched in love, and then in hope described it.
There was a bird, blue, small, spangled like dew.
All now are vanished with the fallen forest.
And he, unloved, past hope, was buried,
who helped with proud stained hands to fell the forest,
and set those birds in love on unread pages;
yet thought himself immortal, being a poet.
And is he not immortal, where I found him,
in love and hope along his careful pages?—
the poet vanished, in the vanished forest,
among his brightly tinted extinct birds??

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