The Watch for Agamemnon
- Genre: Classical
- Time: 08:26
- Released: 7/18/2006
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- Credits: Graham Metcalfe - Poetry by Chris Metcalfe
- Artist: Graham Metcalfe
- Location: AMERICA NORTH: USA: California (CA)
- Sounds Like: Classical
Song Information:
This is one rescued from the archives. This performance was recorded onto an audio cassette live in 1982, and has been sitting on a shelf since then.
The performance is by the UCSB Symphonic Wind Ensemble with myself on classical guitar (poorly mic'd). This was one movement from my Senior Project there.
The music: This is a programmatic piece based on a poem by my brother. The story is the return of Agamemnon from the Trojan wars...the long wait for his return...the rush to the sea to welcome the army...and the site of so few returning. Not really mentioned in the poem but is in the piece is the over-riding trajedy and foreshadowing of Agamemnon's doom upon his return.
Song Lyrics:
The poem that was inspiration for the piece:
Watching the Captain in his perch --
the craggy rocks
above the coast
I saw his face light --
ten years waiting
washed from his brow
We ran to the sea --
the tortured gravel
down breathless valleys:
No song in that azure harbor --
just the silent sorrow
of empty boats.
(copyright 1981 Christopher Metcalfe)
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