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Apathy

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Clouds

Byrd Song

[piano] LIFELIGHT

Natural High

Performed at the Drugstore, May 11th, 2019

Victoria Olson and Merit Christensen, soprano
Sarah-lynn Bennett and Julia Kasten, alto
Kota Hayton and Nico Caruso, tenor
James Keller and Gabriel Lewis-O'Connor, bass

Poem by Meghan Mohn

A storm turns the room
dark. Eager percussion at the window, 
the trees bending at the wood
wind’s crescendo, forte its forte

what here growls, roars
at the next town over
where they laugh at the blue and chide
midwest capricious, scarred history

of flood and erosion. Of hunger and
spring. Dirty thirties and bloody
Kansas knew the thunder
is what makes the pale buds open.

Head bowed, he descends
from the porch. Leaves make a crown
he’s never once seen. Every window storm black.
Next door, they peer up and wait.

A storm turns the room

Composer/Conductor originally from Kansas City, MO, currently based in Pensacola, FL. Commissioning ensembles include Choral Arts Initiative, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Canticum Novum, the LSU A Capella choir, and Continuum Vocal Ensemble. Founder/Artistic Director of BRACE New Music Choir - @bracechoir on social medias.

BM Composition ‘20 UMKC
MM Choral Conducting ‘23 LSU

Clouds

James Keller

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