– 2 new pieces by Jenni Brandon and Paul Ayres
– Delivered by August 15, 2015
– Cost: $250-400 per choir
– If you are interested, contact Timothy C. Takach at
Previous Consortiums:
2013-14 Eric William Barnum “The Young Man’s Song,” TB and piano
2013-14 Jocelyn Hagen “Speak the Truth,” TB and piano
2014-15 Matthew Culloton “The Lobster Quadrille,” 2 part treble and piano
2014-15 Martha Hill Duncan “Step to the Fiddle,” 2 part treble and piano
Paul Ayres: “Not For That City”
Text by Charlotte Mew
Not for that city of the level sun,
Its golden streets and glittering gates ablaze—
The shadeless, sleepless city of white days,
White nights, or nights and days that are as one—
We weary, when all is said , all thought, all done.
We strain our eyes beyond this dusk to see
What, from the threshold of eternity
We shall step into. No, I think we shun
The splendour of that everlasting glare,
The clamour of that never-ending song.
And if for anything we greatly long,
It is for some remote and quiet stair
Which winds to silence and a space for sleep
Too sound for waking and for dreams too deep.
Text by Annabelle Moseley
You,
the sand dollar I have found,
are marked with little holes
in your nature,
powdered and breakable.
I feel your beauty
as I trace the patterns of your face,
and hold you from the salty grip of beachcombers.
You have been picked up many times
but never kept.
There is a void in your center,
where you carry the memory of your source,
where you vaguely remember the water
running through your body.
You wait for me to drop you where I found you
I smooth away the gritty sediment
and see the strength in you
who have emerged from the ocean
and carry the journey on your face.
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