For Valentine’s Day: “Invitation to Love”

For Valentine’s Day, please consider my two settings of the poem INVITATION TO LOVE by Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872 – 1906), for unaccompanied SATB mixed choir and for unison chorus with piano accompaniment.

Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, and published his first poems at age 16. He gained fame as a a poet, novelist and playwright, and wrote the lyrics for the musical comedy In Dahomey (1903), the first all-African-American musical produced on Broadway.

Invitation to Love • Solo / Unison Chorus

Invitation to Love • SATB Score Video

Both versions are available from J. W. Pepper.

For more information, visit my website at http://www.gregbartholomew.com/invitationindex.html