Shall I Compare Thee (2002)
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Shall I Compare Thee
Soprano-Alto duet, a cappella / Soprano-Tenor duet, a cappella // 2 minutes
Awarded the Malloy Miller Prize in Composition for the best setting of a sonnet Boston University, 2008
Premiere: April 2002
Texts:
Sonnet 18
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.