Name: There Shall Be No More Sea
Start: 2023-05-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: All Saints' Episcopal Church

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Kai-Ching Chang

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Adam Jacob Simon

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Sophie Michaux

Voice

Chris Voss

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Tiny Glass Tavern

There Shall Be No More Sea

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Cambridge

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Swedenborg Chapel

South Hadley

All Saints' Episcopal Church

There Shall Be No More Sea: Concert Various

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There Shall Be No More Sea: Recital Various

Dans le Port d’Amsterdam - Jacques Brel
Sophie Michaux, voice
Adam Simon, guitar

Live in Cambridge MA, on 1/21/23
www.TinyGlassTavern.com


Lyrics (translation below):

Dans le port d’Amsterdam
Y a des marins qui chantent 
Les rêves qui les hantent
Au large d’Amsterdam
Dans le port d’Amsterdam
Y a des marins qui dorment 
Comme des oriflammes
Le long des berges mornes 
Dans le port d’Amsterdam
Y a des marins qui meurent 
Pleins de bière et de drames 
Aux premières lueurs
Mais dans le port d’Amsterdam 
Y a des marins qui naissent 
Dans la chaleur épaisse
Des langueurs océannnes

Dans le port d’Amsterdam
Y a des marins qui mangent
Sur des nappes trop blanches 
Des poissons ruisselants
Ils vous montrent des dents
A croquer la fortune
A décroisser la lune
A bouffer des haubans
Et ça sent la morue
Jusque dans le coeur des frites 
Que leurs grosses mains invitent 
A revenir en plus
Puis se lèvent en riant
Dans un bruit de tempête 
Referment leur braguette
Et sortent en rotant

Dans le port d’Amsterdam 
Y a des marins qui dansent 
En se frottant la panse
Sur la panse des femmes
Et ils tournent et ils dansent 
Comme des soleils crachés
Dans le son déchiré
D’un accordéon rance
Ils se tordent le cou
Pour mieux s’entendre rire 
Jusqu’à ce que tout à coup 
L’accordéon expire
Alors le geste grave 
Alors le regard fier
Ils ramènent leur batave 
Jusqu’en pleine lumière

Dans le port d’Amsterdam 
Y a des marins qui boivent 
Et qui boivent et reboivent 
Et qui reboivent encore
Ils boivent à la santé
Des putains d’Amsterdam
De Hambourg ou d’ailleurs 
Enfin ils boivent aux dames 
Qui leur donnent leur joli corps 
Qui leur donnent leur vertu 
Pour une pièce en or
Et quand ils ont bien bu
Se plantent le nez au ciel
Se mouchent dans les étoiles
Et ils pissent comme je pleure 
Sur les femmes infidèles
Dans le port d’Amsterdam Dans le port d’Amsterdam.

Translation:
In the port of Amsterdam,the sailors sing
Of the dreams that haunt them
in the great barging coasts.
In the port of Amsterdam,
The sailors sleep
like ancient willows that weep 
Along mournful riverbanks.
In the port of Amsterdam,
sailors are dying,
bulging with beer and catastrophe at the first light of dawn.
But in the port of Amsterdam, 
There are sailors being born in the suffocating heat
of groaning doldrums.

In the port of Amsterdam, 
The sailors eat Streaming fish
On too-white napkins; they flash their teeth
that can crush fortunes,
That can swallow the moon and devour its shroud.
And the place stinks of cod, seeping into the heart of chips that their huge hands welcome only to come back for more. 
Then they stand up and laugh like the roar of storms, zip up their flies
And leave with a swagger.

In the port of Amsterdam, the sailors dance,
rubbing their paunches against women’s bellies.
And they turn and they dance Like suns spat
From the ragged sound
Of a rancid accordion.
They twist their necks
The better to hear each other laugh Till with a sudden jolt,
the accordion expires.
So with this doleful sign,
so with proud looks,
they go home with their prostitutes till the full light of dawn.
In the port of Amsterdam, The sailors drink
And drink and drink again, And drink one for the road. 
They drink to the health
of the whores of Amsterdam
or of Hamburg or elsewhere.
In fact they drink to the ladies
Who give them their beautiful bodies 
Who give them their innocence
For a coin of gold.
And when they have drunk enough, 
They turn their faces to the sky, They blow their noses in the stars, And they piss like I cry
On our unfaithful wives.
In the port of Amsterdam
In the port of Amsterdam

Jacques Brel

Dans le port d'Amsterdam by Jacques Brel - Tiny Glass Tavern - Sophie Michaux, Adam Simon

With Sophie Michaux (voice), Adam Simon (voice+guitar+bass), Kai-Ching Chang (piano), Chris Voss (narrator+voice)

Kathleen Raine's poem There Shall Be No More Sea was the inspiration for this Tiny Glass Tavern program, centered around the awe the Ocean provokes in us, humans. Its power and mystery have sparked wonder, fear, imagination, admiration, and grief in poets and musicians all over the world and throughout the centuries. We will explore these emotions while sharing music by Antonio Vivaldi, Rebecca Clarke, Cecil Cohen, Gabriel Fauré, Henry Purcell, Adam Simon, Jacques Brel, Folk songs from England and more. Short stories and poems will be woven into the music by our narrator Christopher Voss, and audience members should be prepared to join in on a sea shanty or two.

S﻿uggested donation: $10-30

M﻿asks encouraged

M﻿ore about Tiny Glass Tavern:

Tiny Glass Tavern is a cross-genre music ensemble that offers tastes of different styles of music to curious audiences in an intimate concert setting. Each of our eclectic constellation of musicians brings their different expertise to perform early, folk, romantic, pop, and new music to our audiences. Those styles are programmed side by side and shine in contrast with each other. With Tiny Glass Tavern, this joyful collaboration of artists includes the audience. We invite them to experience the infinite musical repertoire from within by leading singing workshops exploring the specific concert repertoire on the week of the performance, pre-concert sings, and/or audience participation. Our concerts and workshops will be a time to gather for a taste of something musical audiences may or may not know or like yet.

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There Shall Be No More Sea by Various, From (2023/2023), All Saints' Episcopal Church, South Hadley, United States

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