Various arrangements:
Soprano/mezzo with piano
Soprano/mezzo, piano, music box, accordion
Soprano/mezzo, piano, music box, string quartet

Duration 2″

From SEMMELWEIS (production in Hungarian)
Music: Ray Lustig
Libretto: Matthew Doherty

ENGLISH words:

In the market squares in Buda and Pest
Old women cut snips from folded paper
And the shape of a mother would unfold
And trailing from her
Were children you had not seen
Invisibly built by that quiet machine
And one wrong cut would cut through everyone
And it seemed like something they had never
Learned but knew in their hands how to make
And make and make.
And I never asked the price
Just watched
Watched them weave with their scissors
Something too delicate to take

Szilveszter Szabó, baritone
Budapest Operetta Theater
Daniel Dinyés, music director
Martin Boross, director

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