duration: ca. 10 min. q = ca.40 very rubato, esecially silences? 4 > # > Stalin and the Little Girl # AN ICN (or unaccomanied bass-baritone voice) # words & music by William Vollinger (ASCA) 2012 # Gel-ya! I do not want to hold you a-ny - more, my love-ly? # n lit-tle daugh-ter. I can-not re-main gen-tle ve-ry long. NTES: I ossible, the above icture should be rojected on a screen on a darkened stage, the soloist to one side. The use o an iad with a d o the score makes the ace o the singer glow ominously. I this is not ossible, the hoto should then be rinted in the rogram. (The words are hyhenated the way they are actually sung or said, not as in a dictionary.) gross
2? j İ.... >. > tired? want to ut you down or -e-ver.. I do not want your lo - - - - wers, Be-?............... cause eve-ry time they're o - en-ing u their bright love-ly e - tals, they're? al - so swal-low-ing u tired? And then it takes? smi?. stentorian me! near-ly se-ven-ty-two years me! to sto me! you j rom - ling at me. mm ho-. #.. to-gra-hers, ut a-way your came-ras, un-til I can ul -ly? # ß # y # # to-tal-ly sen-tence all o you to death, and then leave me a -? w and lone on - ly or one mo-ment o eace.
? # # > # > j? I do not want to inner agitation hold you a - ny - more, Gel-ya, Be -. j. 4 #? cause I'm ex-treme-ly a -raid that your name real - ly is "Gel-ya". do? w name not want to 4 y And I real - ly know your name. I knew your a - ther's y y > some-times, but wrote it on-ly that one time. Num-ber sev-en-teen - mechanical? mil-lion - our -hun-ded - twen-ty-six - thou-sand - two-hun-dred our-teen:? Ardan Markizova, Se-cond sec-re-ta-ry o the Bur-yat Mon-gol Au-ton-o-mous? So-vi-et So-cial-ist Re-ub-lic with se-cialre-son-si-bil-i-ties or a-gri-cul-ture.? >. #. It was on-ly that one time that I de - ci-ded that he was a - -? # # # π # # a a nese sy, # and there-ore had him killed be-ore he could kill me. But no - bo-dy can
4? # # # # # # kill me? # earully sweet now. # I wish that # N> > some - w bo-dy could. w gross Could you? #> # > lease kill w me Gel-ya? gross w Sto #> # > smi-ling and kill me in-stead,? n> # > gross Gel-ya! I can-not re-main gen-tle ve-ry long.?. mm?.,. come u on my.. I kee on.... molto accel... wai - ting or your a - ther's name to list or one more time: a temo Ardan Markizova, mechanical? Se-cond sec-re-ta-ry o the Bur-yat Mon-gol Au-ton-o-mous So-vi-et So-cial-ist Re-? ub-lic with se -cial re -son-si-bil-i-ties or a-gri-cul-ture and a? # tired # n a-an -ese sy. And then it takes near -ly se-ven-ty -two years
?. molto accel..... un-til my list comes to its end and i - nal - ly it rea-ches a temo?.... the last name, 5? It's my name my name my name y my name my name,?? And then it starts im-me-di-ate-ly back to the ve-ry irst name. I know that be - cause those se-ven-ty - two years have ha-ened mil-lions o times.? God,? eace, till You and? # rom the gut h God oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God oh lease make me an a- the-ist i on-ly or one mo-ment o # # deserate I can ul -ly and to-tal-ly sen-tence each o- ther to death, N> # > # y and? then I can ut Gel - ya down. Let us both do that oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God I ray,
6 back o throat,? > alla > marcia > > ~ introsective dee dee dee dee dee? > > > > dee dee beore this hotograh turns into a oster, dee dee dee dee dee? > > > > dee dee and this oster kees growing larger and larger and larger, dee dee dee dee dee? > > > > dee dee much larger than a man can ever hold a little girl, dee dee dee dee dee? > > > > dee dee or this arade that takes nearly seventy -two years dee dee dee dee dee dee dee? > > > > to ass by this tomb that my redecessor is saely encased in, dee dee dee dee dee? > > > > dee dee on which I eternally and suddenly ( ) everlastingly stand in review. # dee dee dee dee dee Where is your mother, Gelya? She should be re-son-si-ble e-? #. callling nough to take you rom my de -tes - ta - ble? b > > > > > > Come or - ward and claim your arms, Dominca Markizova! > child!
? > 7 What do you mean that you were murdered?? > You were not mur-dered! >? > I still can see you! disgusted # You are her mo - ther! # So take this? > > > Here she is.? love gross ly lit-tle daughter o yours away. I can-not re - main gen-tle ve - ry long. Now eace and ha - i - ness my? riends,? da! gritting teeth my riends, j b > w No!. my riends, j lease don't hand her Ï roar w w? # da da back to me! da Take her rom me! RRRAHHH! ound something or stam? I on - ly I could ~~ tear o your
8? ace. I on - ly I could tear o my? ~ ace. I on - ly I could tear o those ~~? ret - ty lit - tle lo - wers and they o - en all their love - ly lit - tle? e -tals and they swal-low me u, to di -gest me in -to the roots o my own cre -? y y a-tion. h ut me down, Gel-ya! w > # > loud whiser (I'm araid.)