The Last Toast

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