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Beauty in dissonance in this piece...lovely pure tones!

For more information about All We Need, visit daletrumbore.com/allweneed. 

Annie Finch's poem “Earth Day” is a celebration of all that the planet offers us, as well as a plea to respect what we find here. The recurring refrain of the piece is simple, but profound: “all we need” is to find love in what we already have, both in the “faces of the people we love” and on the earth itself. 

This recording features The Esoterics, directed by Eric Banks. All We Need was commissioned from by the Ithaca College Choir, Janet Galván, conductor. This piece was begun at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (Saratoga, WY).

EARTH DAY

All we want is to find the love
in the faces of the people we love.
All we need is to find the dark
in the nighttime sky, to lie down to sleep
in the darkness, where stars and moon keep vigil,
in the silence of a sleeping earth.
All we require is to wake to sunlight
in the morning, to simple sky,
to breathe aloud as the sky is breathing,
to drink the water of the earth.
​All we need is to touch the planet
and find it clean where we were born,
where our ancestors breathed and planted,
where we live with the plants and birds.
All we need is to live with the memory
of a future we want to imagine.
​All we want is to find the love
​in the face of the planet we love.

—Annie Finch
From Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2013)

All We Need

Live recording from our April 3, 2016 performance, "Such Things As Flowers." Featuring Dale Trumbore's "Light of Late November" composed by Dale Trumbore.  Brandon Elliott, Artistic Director.

[Live] "Light Of Late November" by Dale Trumbore

Carol Of The Angels

In The Silence

Softly there falls the silver rain

USC Thornton Symphony; Donald Crockett, conductor

Dark Sand, Sifting Light

Whispers of Jasmine

Sea Dream Elegies (Excerpts)

Follow along with the score here: bit.ly/wholesea

The Whole Sea in Motion was written for and premiered by the University of Southern California Chamber Singers (Jo-Michael Scheibe, conductor; Guk Hui Han, piano) on April 8, 2011. This piece sets a prose text from Agnes Grey, a 1907 novel by British author Anne Bronte. 

Text: 
No language can describe the effect of the deep, clear azure of the sky and ocean, the bright morning sunshine on the semicircular barrier of craggy cliffs surmounted by green swelling hills, and on the smooth, wide sands, and the low rocks out at sea - looking, with their clothing of weeds and moss, like little grass-grown islands - and above all, on the brilliant, sparkling waves.  And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! …just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.  Nothing else was stirring – no living creature was visible besides myself.  My footsteps were the first to press the firm, unbroken sands; - nothing before had trampled them since last night’s flowing tide had obliterated the deepest marks of yesterday, and left them fair and even, except where the subsiding water had left behind it the traces of dimpled pools and little running streams.

—Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

The Whole Sea in Motion

Hailed by the New York Times for her "soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies," Dale Trumbore has received commissions, performances and awards from organizations including ACDA, ACME, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and VocalEssence. Learn more about her music at daletrumbore.com.

The Whole Sea in Motion

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