Title: Domenica a Filicudi, op. 158

Commissioned by: Joan, Mary, and Cathy Collins

Dedication: in memory of Deborah Collins

Date of composition: 2019

Instrumentation: soprano voice, viola, and piano

Text: based on a poem by Deborah Collins

Performance time: ca. 5 minutes

First performance: May 12, 2019, Christie Lee Gibson-voice, David Wallace-viola, Larry Bell-piano

TEXT

Sunday on Filicudi (Domenica a Filicudi)

Aeolus frolicking in the fronds,
Caressing the bougainvillea,
Cavorting in the soft ripples of the blue Tyrrhenian
sea.

Swallows dipping, the occasional raven croaking,
All else is quiet.
My world is at peace.

-Deborah Collins, 2016