WHERE SUNBEAMS DWELL: Love's Seasons

Music by Lindsay Warren Baker & Amanda Jacobs Poetry by Pauline Croll Stevens

Performed at the Women in Music Festival (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY) on March 29, 2013

Thomas Lehman, baritone Christopher Reed, piano

LOVE’S SEASONS (1935)

Like spring is youthful love, her downcast gaze Is loath to open full upon the sun, She dreams in wistful thought, cannot be won. Yet when the summer comes with ardent rays, Then love too wakens from her tender daze, And looks so deep into another’s eyes That all else is forgotten, earth and skies Stars, moon and waters give their best in praise. And must love follow autumn’s lead, and too, Flame with a sudden glory soon to die? So it is with most loves, but just a few Never beneath the snows of winter lie. With changing seasons such loves deeper grow, Their fire burned bright, now bright the embers glow.