Description
Published by Graphite Publishing.
This sweet song about marriage is part of a larger, 3-movement work, The Time of Singing Has Come, also published by Graphite Publishing.
Performed by Linh Kauffman, soprano; Gary Ruschman, tenor; Sonja Thompson, piano
Text
The wedding is the promise
of two old ones inside the young ones,
so old they can barely
sit up by themselves.
Old woman, old man,
each wants someone all of their own
to be there
to sit in the other
chair.
– from Wedding, by Marisha Chamberlain
reprinted with permission
