Dirait-On by Morten Lauridsen | Oregon Repertory Singers

Dirait-On
from Les Chansons des Roses
Music by Morten Lauridsen
Text by Rainer Maria Rilke
Oregon Repertory Singers
Ethan Sperry, Artistic Director
Conducted by Lisa Riffel, Assistant Conductor
Performed and recorded on December 10, 2022
David Peterson, Producer & Editor
Amer Isse, Sound Technician
Josh Orchard, Videographer
Recorded at First United Methodist Church, Portland, OR
Text:
Abandon surrounding abandon,
tenderness touching tenderness…
Your oneness endlessly
caresses itself, so they say;
Self-caressing through its own
clear reflection.
Thus you invent the theme
of Narcissus fulfilled.

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With uninhibited abundance,
and full of tender care,
you seem to show us
how to reflect our true self.
Not by falling in love
with what we are,
but by embracing
what we were born to be.