Listen:

 

 

I. Nocturne

Night. Hot. Sera Meridionale Italiana. . .
Wind stirs in gusts. Insects.
Solitude.
Serenade of night birds.
Longing grows, sings, laments.
The insects respond: A symphony.
Evening Requiem:
A desolate procession approaches, passes, fades.

 

II. Goat Dance

Blazing Sicilian noon:
Boys lead goats to the dancing place.
Drumming, dancing, leaping.
Rocky landscape, rushing winds, leaping hearts,
Leaping boys and goats: girls follow.
An Ancient Dance.

 

III. Grotto Azzurro

Blue silence underwater.
Melancholy winds, singing, sighing.
Light on the surface, a scattered, broken necklace of light.
Diamond light. Sapphire light.
Breathe, submerge, surface,
white, blue.