New Score Video: FIRE AND ICE (text by Robert Frost)

A new score video of my setting for mixed choir (SATB) of FIRE AND ICE, the poem by Robert Frost, is available on YouTube. The video allows you to follow along in the scores as you listen to an excellent recording by Matthew Curtis of ChoralTracks. https://youtu.be/z0ezDXyKk1w?list=PLfOoI8O24sbw_30-GpKg6qkyT5tpYKNbB

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.

FIRE AND ICE is available from J.W. Pepper Sheet Music: https://www.jwpepper.com/Fire-and-Ice/11129789.item

Please contact me if your choir would like to premiere “FIRE AND ICE.”

Score videos are also available for four of my other choral works:

FOR EVERY LOVE A PLACE (TTBB): https://youtu.be/ihIwlFzps0M

FROM ODE 14 OF THE ODES OF SOLOMON (SATB): https://youtu.be/nR82Czsw8CM

FROM ODES 1 & 3 OF THE ODES OF SOLOMON (SATB): https://youtu.be/tEHr8Q-Rg6Y

STOKE FLEMING (SATB): https://youtu.be/4xUnoNdyYP8

Greg Bartholomew
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