missing you

Missing You

Rainy Day Improv 8 - 22 - 2021

Adagio - JDD2 - Eight 8's (M)

My setting of William Butler Yeats'  poem, "Cradle Song"

The angels are stooping above your bed,
They weary of trooping with the whimp'ring dead.
God's laughing in Heaven to see you so good,
the Sailing Seven are gay with his mood,
I sigh that kiss you, for I must own,
That I shall miss you when you are grown.

Unknown album (7/10/2011 4:31:56 PM)

Cradle Song     Yeats/Bassen

O, My Soul! is a work inspired by some of my favorite encounters with communal singing. The first movement, ”like the grass” is based on the first psalm and psalm tone I sang as a member of an Anglican church choir, which has much sentimental value to me; my family was Episcopalian when I was a child. The second movement, ”Like an eagle’s” is inspired by the kinetic nature of modern a cappella. “Rolling River,” movement 3, probably speaks for itself. It draws from the American folk tune "Shenandoah," paying homage to the rich choral tradition I feel truly fortunate to sing in. 
O, My Soul! was premiered by the Cassatt Quartet and recorded by the wonderful Peter Weitzner

Adagio - JDD2 - Eight 8's (M)

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