Hochzeitsmadrigal

The "Wedding Madrigal" composed in 1965/76, is a song to the boundless joy of living (text: "Al mio gioir").
It shows four stages in the wedding ceremony:

• guests and relatives posing for photographs at the church-door
• marching in and peal of bells, with poses
• preparation of the bridal bed by candle-light, with poses
• private dialogue between the newly-weds (text: mediaeval German love-song "Thou art mine, I am thine.") beneath the spying eyes of the relatives, who peep through the keyhole, with poses.