Name: Last Hope (Live)
Duration: P00H06M01S
Description: Part 3 of The Floating Boy (suite for big band and voices). Text: 'Last Hope', by Paul Verlaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. Recorded live in concert at Magdalen Auditorium, Oxford, June 2019.

Last Hope (Live)

from The Floating Boy by Harry Baker, Oxford University Jazz Orchestra, The Oxford Gargoyles

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Part 3 of The Floating Boy (suite for big band and voices). Text: 'Last Hope', by Paul Verlaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. Recorded live in concert at Magdalen Auditorium, Oxford, June 2019.

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('Last Hope', Paul Verlaine, trans. Norman R. Shapiro)

Beside a humble stone, a tree
Floats in the cemetery’s air,
Not planted in memoriam there,
But growing wild, uncultured, free.

A bird comes perching there to sing,
Winter and summer, proffering
Its faithful song—sad, bittersweet.
That tree, that bird are you and I:

You, memory; absence, me, that tide
And time record. Ah, by your side
To live again, undying! Aye,

To live again! But ma petite,
Now nothingness, cold, owns my flesh. . .
Will your love keep my memory fresh?

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from The Floating Boy, released February 4, 2021
Composer: Harry Baker
Performers: Oxford University Jazz Orchestra, The Oxford Gargoyles
Sound Engineer: Will Biggs
Album Artwork: Nick Budd

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Harry Baker London, UK

Harry Baker is an award-winning improvising pianist and composer active in jazz, classical and new-music settings.

His music has been featured on Jazz FM and BBC Radio 3 with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and his compositions recorded by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain on NMC Recordings.

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