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The Last Toast

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The Last Toast (2016)


Duration: approx. 2 mins


The Last Toast is the final song in the song cycle ‘Parting Songs’, a cycle of four settings of the evocative and heartbreaking words of Russian poet Anna Akhamatova.


Range - D3 to A4



The Last Toast


I drink to our ruined house,

To all of life’s evils too,

To our mutual loneliness,

And I, I drink to you –

To eyes, dead and cold,

To lips, lying and treacherous,

To the age, coarse, and cruel,

To the fact no god has saved us.

 

-Anna Akhamatova


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