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Kinder- und Hausmarchen

from Snow White Turns Sixty by Gillian Hollis & Dale Trumbore

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KINDER- UND HAUSMARCHEN

Saint Nikolaus had a giant gunny sack
to put the children in if they were bad.
It was a hole so deep you'd never come back.
A porch swing full of stories, where the smoke
went up in hot, concentric, perfect rings
and filled our heads with unbelievable things.

A nursery heavy with a history
where nothing was whatever it had seemed,
where Aschenputtel's sisters cut their feet
half off — so desperate they were to fit.
And in the end, they also lost their eyes
when steel–grey birds descended from the skies.

Rotkäppchen's wolf was someone that she knew,
who wooed her with a man's words in the woods.
But she escaped. It always struck me most
how Grandmother, whose world was swallowed whole,
leapt fully formed out of the wolf alive.
Her will came down the decades to survive

in mine — my heart still desperately believes
the stories where somebody re–conceives
herself, emerges from the hidden belly,
the warring home dug deep inside the city.
We live today those stories we were told.
Es war einmal im tiefen tiefen Wald.

—Diane Thiel

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from Snow White Turns Sixty, released September 20, 2011
Composed by Dale Trumbore; text written by Diane Thiel. Recorded June 30, 2011 by Gillian Hollis, soprano & Dale Trumbore, piano, with John Baffa of TV Tray Studio. Artwork by Jackie Littman. Produced by Dale Trumbore for Dissonant Gorgeous Productions, LLC.

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Dale Trumbore Los Angeles, California

Dale Trumbore is a composer and writer whose music has been called "devastatingly beautiful" (The Washington Post) and praised for its "soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies" (The New York Times). Trumbore's compositions have been performed by the Chicago Symphony's MusicNOW ensemble, Conspirare & the Miró Quartet, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Modesto Symphony, & Pasadena Symphony. ... more

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