Rock Hill

5 min

August 22, 2021
Andrea Clearfield's Zalon, Philadelphia, PA
Jessica Beebe, soprano
Andrea Clearfield Piano

soprano, piano

C4-A#6

Manfred Fischbeck : Rock Hill

ROCK HILL: Aaron Copland’s House
by Manfred Fischbeck

from a house on a rock

chambers and shelves

of memory and music

heart sound and earth sound

sing out and play

the scores of the forest

beneath and around

listening makes tones

rise from heart strings

on their own volition

resonance streams

from four hands

where trees and branches and leaves

become the notes and staffs

two pianos

facing and touching one another

merging in resonance

thirds, fourths, fifths

a stream through fields of our minds

and souls and bodies

knowing –

know when to grow

and when to diminish

and vanish

in silence