Introduction

Go quietly is a short miniature for solo soprano. It is dedicated to Coco Lau's mother and uses a poem by Paula Dehmel, a German poet who speaks here as a mother and asks everyone else to go quietly of consideration for the newborn baby.
The composition begins and ends with the request repeated twice in the upper vocal range, then rises from the depths with fragmented figures to ascend once more to the final request.

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