Opium Song (from Brecht Suite, by Eric Salzman)

Music: Eric Salzman; Text: Bertolt Brecht.
Performed by The New Tango Project: Laila Salins, vocalist; Bill Schimmel, accordion; Machiko Ozawa and Marc Levine, violins; Leo Grinhauz, cello.
From "Brecht Suite" - a set of songs based on a French-language production of The Good Person of Sechuan at the Théâtre du Trident in Quebec City, Canada, directed by Antoine Laprise. Performed at The Cell, NY, NY on Dec. 4, 2009, produced by the Center for Contermporary Opera.
" I used to believe that my intelligence would save me. I was an optimist back then. Today Im older and I see that I was wrong. Can intelligence really fight hunger? They say that old people lose hope. What they really want is time - and time flies by. They say that for young people all doors are open. They're open all right: onto the void Lets breathe in the black smoke and spit it out into the frozen skies. Soon enough, we, too, will disappear."

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