PROJECT : ENCORE™: SSAA-SSAA (or other multiple treble choir)

I first encountered this poem through Libby Larsen's setting of it, which I saw while working as an Editorial Assistant at Oxford University Press in New York. I was immediately and profoundly moved by it, not least because of the way it unifies the Spiritual, Natural, and Human worlds in plainspoken language that is nevertheless deeply musical in its rhythm and cadence and rich in its imagery and emotional associations.

This piece was written for a very good children's choir - you will hear them perform the work in the submitted mp3 file.  I have answered the assessment of level of difficulty question below... the piece is of moderate difficulty - not hard to sing, but hard to sing well.  I think the Virginia Children's Chorus did a great job.