Where Love Is, Light Will Grow from "The Hill" by Frank Ferko Voice Solo - Digital Sheet Music

Solo voices, piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download

SKU: MQ.8664-E

Composed by Frank Ferko. Instrument part. 39 pages. Duration 31:25 Minutes. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8664-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8664-E).

English.

Libretto:
Written by Sally M. Gall

Scene Synopsis:
A large room in the manor. The Mistress and the Apprentice watch as the group of young travelers approach the house. In her discussion with the Apprentice of the fate of the travelers, the Mistress sings an aria, “But in a time, perhaps one will come.” She then takes from her apron a small, decorative seal (symbol of the soul), which had once belonged to the leader of the group of travelers. In a duet, she and the Apprentice comment on the seal’s symbolic imagery: two stags with their antlers intertwined. As the Mistress gives the seal to the Apprentice for safekeeping, the Youth enters. He sees the seal and asks about his friend, who was the travelers’ leader. When he is informed that his friend is dead. At first he refuses to believe it, but he then asks the Mistress to give him death as well. At first she refuses, but when he begs her for death, she replies, “It will be as it must be.” She takes him to an alcove where she quietly ushers him into the next world. The Apprentice, alone on stage, responds to this action with a symbolic dance of death (“Totentanz”) followed by a sung verse which concludes with the words, “…where love is, light will grow.” Duration: 31:25 Minutes

Synopsis:
Symbolist Opera. The Hill, in part a consolatory work for an era when youth is cut off in its prime, takes place in a mythological setting. Young people are waiting on a hill distinguished by a somewhat incomprehensible musician and a manor into which their leader has vanished.

Despite the musician's cryptic warnings, the young leader's best friend (the Youth) follows a mysterious young woman (the Apprentice) into the manor. There he discovers from the mistress that his friend has indeed died. Frantic with grief, he begs for death as well. After some argument, his wish is granted. However, because of the love all young people bear one another, the souls of the departed are placed on the musician's harp and blaze forth eternally.

Roles:
Youth	High, Lyric Baritone
Mistress	Dramatic Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano
Apprentice	Lyric Soprano

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