Product Number | 8656 |
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Composer/Arranger | Averitt, William |
Text Author | Bode, Robert |
Voicing & Instruments | SATB Chorus and Piano Four-hands |
Difficulty | Moderately Difficult |
Text Language | English |
Topics (Secular) | Love, Night/Evening/Stars, Day/Dawn/Sun |
Popular Choral Searches | Multi-Movement Work: 15-30 min |
Duration | 20:00 |
Publisher | E. C. Schirmer Music Company |
Recording Credits | Luther College Norsemen, Mark Potvin, Director |
A musical peek into the fantastical visual world of Marc Chagall via poetry by Robert Bode. Its seven poems are imaginative reflections on seven paintings by the Russian-French artist. Scored for SATB chorus and piano four-hands, this eclectic score opens with an explosive hymn to the morning sun, and continues in a jazzy 1920s-style, two songs of love (sacred and secular), a view of nature at flickering sunset, and a visit to the world of dreams. It concludes with a series of good-humored musings on some of history’s greatest geniuses, set in ragtime and bolero styles in alternation.