Premiered by Choral Chameleon in Brooklyn, NY. Vince Peterson, director.

Lyrics: To Autumn, by William Blake

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but stay
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,
Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather’d clouds strew flowers round her head.

“The spirits of the air live on the smells
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”

Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat;
Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.

To Autumn

Raja Orr (b. 1994) is an American born composer and music producer whose music has been heard in film, tv, and Carnegie Hall. Orr attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he graduated with a degree in composition.

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Born and raised in the forests of New Hampshire, Kyle Randall is an internationally-performed, award-winning composer of a wide variety of music, with premieres from Carnegie Hall to La Schola Cantorum in Paris, and commissions from renowned groups such as the Harvard Glee Club and Choral Chameleon. He strives for vividness and sincerity in his music, and he is not afraid to draw on the past as well as the present in his writing. After receiving a B.A. from Harvard, he came to San Francisco Conservatory to study with David Garner for a Masters in composition. Kyle was a winner of the American Prize in Composition for 2015, and a finalist in the Morton Gould ASCAP Composer prizes.

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To Autumn

Kyle C Randall