singer, one-man choir, guitarist and composer
To Make a Prairie - for choir and piano
SM-000301516
- Composer
- John Graham
-
Lyricist
-
Emily Dickinson
- Publisher
- David W Solomons
- Genre
- Classical / Choral music
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Mixed choir, Female choir, Male choir
- Scored for
- Accompanying piano, Choir
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Duration
- 3'50"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Year of composition
- 2004
Description
The pdf contains two versions, the original one in B flat for sopranos and altos and one transposed to F for 2 altos and baritone, which you can hear here
being sung by the dwsChorale (David Warin Solomons multitracking).
It can also be enjoyed on youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzycLEGKk_g
The music is by fellow Delian composer John Graham (b. 26.7.1955)
The poem is by Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886:
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.