Now Close the Windows

Composer:

Leonard Mark Lewis

Date Completed:

May 2002

Premiere Date:

October 5, 2002

Premiering Conductor:

Brent Baldwin

Premiering Ensemble:

Vox Dubois

Premiere Venue:

Austin, TX, USA

Audio Sample:

Composer Notes:

Duration:

3'55"

Language:

English

Choral Voicing:

SATB

Divisi:

Alto (minimal)

Bass (minimal)

Solo requirement:

N/A

Text Source:

Poet

Text:

Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.

It will be long ere the marshes resume,
I will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.

Significant Seasons or Days:

N/A

Significant Seasons or Days (other):

any concert

Keyboard accompaniment:

N/A

Instruments:

N/A

Contact for performance materials:

Scoring notation:

Standard notation

Score Sample:

Difficulty Level: