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About the Score

“If I Must Go” at its heart, is a love song. Teasdale asks that if she must die, as we all must, she may spend eternity with the recipient of the poem, knowing them and being known. Her hope after death is simply for one other person with whom to watch eternity pass by, again touching on the inherent loneliness in the concept of death. Her instructions are simple: “be near me” and are stated in the piece with three different emphases: hoping for the person’s continued existence (be), the longing for proximity (near), and the pleading for some sort of self after death (me).

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