The Autumn Day Its Course Has Run
For three a cappella voices (2023) 7 min
Text by Charlotte Brontë
Premiere: March 30, 2023 in an Evelyn Saylor Portrait Concert in KM28, Berlin, Germany
Further performance: September 22, 2024, Seanaps Festival, Westflügel, Leipzig, Germany
Performers: Evelyn Saylor, Nina Guo, Marco Wessnigk
The Autumn day its course has run. The Autumn evening falls
Already risen the Autumn moon gleams quiet on these walls
And Twilight to my lonely house a silent guest is come
In mask of gloom through every room she passes dusk and dumb
Her veil is spread, her shadow shed o’er stair and chamber void
And now I feel her presence steal even to my lone fireside
Sit silent Nun – sit there and be
Comrade and Confidant to me
Charlotte Brontë
Evelyn Saylor 