Secular oratorio for 4 vocal soloists (SMzTBar), mixed chorus (SATB), children's chorus, and orchestra; accompaniment arranged for piano. Cover title. Texts from the King James Bible and creation myths from India, North American and Egypt, and poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Charles Mackay, William Ernest Henley, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lord Byron, Esther Iverem, William Wordsworth and Wendell Berry. Commissioned by the San Francisco Choral Society in collaboration with the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir. Duration: approximately 71 min.
Contents:
Part III. A blade of grass/I bequeath myself In the beginning (creation myths) ; God's world (Whitman). On thine own child (Shelley) ; Smile, o voluptuous cool-breathed earth! (Whitman) ; A blade of grass (Whitman) -- Part 2. The rise of humanity. Locksley Hall (Tennyson) ; Railways 1846 (Mackay) ; A song of speed (Henley) ; High flight (Magee) ; Binsey poplars (Hopkins) ; A dirge (Shelley) -- Part III. Searching for balance. Darkness (Byron) ; Earth screaming (Iverem) ; The world is too much with us (Wordsworth) ; The want of peace (Berry) ; A child said, what is the grass? (Whitman) ; There was a childwent forth every day (Whitman) ; A blade of grass/I bequeath myself (Whitman).
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