Aria: Ashes are the bread I eat (from Lamentation)
for mezzo-soprano & piano

Details:

Mezzo-soprano, Piano
Duration: 5'
Text: Old Testament
Composed: 1983
Published by: Subito Music Publishing

"The aria's biblical text, which deals with the Jews' exile into Babylonia, was set in a straight forward, atmospheric, syllabic manner. Its stark piano accompaniment and long-breathed, darkly eloquent melodic line (adapted from fragments by the Renaissance madrigalist Carlo Gesualdo) proved extremely apposite." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution