Upon Silence

葉芝的晚期詩作《沉默之歌》描繪了歷史上三位重要人物陷入沉默沉思的情景：凱撒大帝正在策劃一場關鍵的軍事戰役，特洛伊的海倫在斯巴達還是個少女，米開朗基羅正在繪製西斯廷教堂"

作曲家: Benjamin, George
樂器: Mezzo Soprano, Strings
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above the strings.