“… the piece shows Getty’s increasing mastery of and sensitivity to text.”
Jeff Dunn
San Francisco Classical Voice, 2016

• For SA chorus and orchestra
• Duration: 5:30
• Companion piece to Mephistopheles to Faust

Orchestration: 2 flutes, oboe, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, trumpet, 2 trombones, tuba, 2 players, harp, celesta, strings
Perusal score and text available upon request

COMPOSER’S NOTES
I read Goethe’s Faust last spring. I was bowled over by the prison scene that ends Part I. I wrote the verse for Gretchen to Faust a little later, adapting some of Goethe’s lines and adding my own. To him, I owe “Tomorrow would have been my wedding day.” She asks him to bury them “My mother in the best place… My brother by her side, and then myself / A little way apart, but not too far.” The last line is such a masterstroke that I found a way to steal it twice.