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Avec Amour
for reciter, viola d'amore (or viola) and piano
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Sherry Grant’s poem "Avec Amour" poetically describes the viola d’amore as a marriage of “modern with antiquity”, and as an instrument that speaks with a rarely heard voice these days.
“Avec Amour” was written at the request of violist Donald Maurice.
The poem begins....
a true rarity in this age
she speaks, in a unique
haunting voice, her wisdom
sympathetically dispatched
soft, articulate, she leads
my stray spirit, my wandering
heart out of clamorous reality,
into uncharted dimension
Dedication note
for Donald Maurice
Text note
Text by Sherry Grant (used by permission)