Ex. 3-15: L'allée d'émeraude et d'or

This song was published in Paris in 1900, when Chaminade was about 43, and ten new songs of hers came out that year. It was printed in two keys, B♭ and G, and the app uses the lower one. She dedicated it to Jane Bathori, a young singer of about 23, who had given her first concert only two years before. Bathori later became famous for singing new French songs, and she was the first to sing many of them, including songs by Ravel.

The poem is by Robert Myriel. Little is known about him, not even when he was born or when he died. He wrote words for songs in Paris around 1900, and Chaminade set seven of his poems to music. In this one a man walks alone in October down a path between trees, which are green and gold at the same time. He remembers walking there last summer with a woman, when both of them were too shy to say what they felt.

From the album Espoir, sung by Aga Winska with Monika Del Rio, piano
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