I am pleased to announce a new recording by Matt Curtis (Choral Tracks) of my new SATB setting of the poem FIRE AND ICE by Robert Frost.
You may listen to the recording on my website at http://www.gregbartholomew.com/fireindex.html
or on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/greg-bartholomew-choral/fire-and-ice-matt-curtis-demo
Published in December 1920 in Harper’s Magazine and again in 1923 in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book New Hampshire, “Fire and Ice” is one of Robert Frost’s most popular poems. Some have asserted that the poem is a compression of Dante’s Inferno. In an anecdote he recounted in 1960, prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley claimed to have inspired Fire and Ice in an encounter with Frost a year before the poem was published. Frost asked Shapley how the world will end, and Shapley responded that either the sun will explode and incinerate the Earth, or the Earth will somehow escape this fate only to end up slowly freezing in deep space.
Sheet music for FIRE AND ICE is available from: J.W. Pepper: https://www.jwpepper.com/Fire-and-Ice/11129789.item#
I will be preparing a score video for FIRE AND ICE shortly, and I will post an announcement for that when it is ready.
Greg Bartholomew
www.gregbartholomew.com
Anna Dembska says
Love this setting, Greg. I wish my chorus were advanced enough to sing it! And I look forward to hearing it with choral voices.
Greg Bartholomew says
Thanks, Anna. I really appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment. It means a lot to me.