This festival-quality piece for SATB (div.) is appropriate for High School, Community, and Professional Vocal Ensembles.
With an introduction, coda, and two interludes that sonically represent the growth and lifecyle of the sunflower, the piece captures the reaching, the struggle, the loss, the death, and the hope that is inherent to life whether that be of humankind or that of the beautiful sun-flower.
The piece begins in D-Major and without much effort temporarlily visits the other 7 keys in diatonic order only to end where it began: D-Major. Even after their journey is done, there is still hope, for the dying sunflower releases seed that will arise from their graves and aspire once again the following spring.
This piece was premiered by the Charlotte Chorale on June 14, 2014, under the direction of James Kevin Gray. Special thanks to “reSound – a Northwest Chamber Ensemble” – under the Direction of Dr. Stephen Marshall-Ward and In-Residence at Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood, Washington. Their assistance in helping bring this piece to completion was not only been memorable and a joy to experience, butw was also been a valuable experience I will treasure.
To see a perusal score and hear the Charlotte Chorale’s premiere of the piece, click visit: http://www.michaelaustinmiller.com/ah–sun-flower.html
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