ME = Moderately Easy
M = Medium
MD = Moderately Difficult
D = Difficult
Individual songs from Spring Revels:
4 minutes - MD Commissioned by the Festival Choir of Madison, Wisconsin
Winner of the Brookline Chorus Composition Competition 2000
III. Spring Grass (Carl Sandburg)
SATB a cappella - SEA-006-03 - $2.50/copy4 minutes - MD Commissioned by the Festival Choir of Madison, Wisconsin
Winner of the Brookline Chorus Composition Competition 2000
In 1982, I wrote a sprightly, mischievous solo song on this delicious Carl Sandburg poem. Twelve years, two babies, and six Wisconsin winters later, I saw another musical possibility for this poem! This setting opens with a close-harmony chorale, earnestly expressing longing for the first spring grass. The mood becomes more and more playful as the song continues, eventually breaking into an exuberant frolic of la-la's, doodah's and fiddle-dee-dee's.
Spring Grass - score
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(MP3, 1.4 MB, sung by the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble ~ G. Roberts Kolb, conductor) A recording of this
piece is now available
on the CD:
Finally On My Way To Yes
(MP3, 1.4 MB, sung by the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble ~ G. Roberts Kolb, conductor) A recording of this
piece is now available
on the CD:
Finally On My Way To Yes
Spring Grass
Spring grass, there is a dance to be danced for you.
Come up, spring grass, if only for young feet.
Come up, spring grass, young feet ask you.
Smell of the young spring grass,
You're a mascot riding on the wind horses.
You came to my nose and spiffed me.
This is your lucky year.
Young spring grass just after the winter,
Shoots of the big green whisper of the year,
Come up, if only for young feet.
Come up, young feet ask you.
"Spring Grass" © 1928, 1956, by Carl Sandburg.
Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Inc.
Spring grass, there is a dance to be danced for you.
Come up, spring grass, if only for young feet.
Come up, spring grass, young feet ask you.
Smell of the young spring grass,
You're a mascot riding on the wind horses.
You came to my nose and spiffed me.
This is your lucky year.
Young spring grass just after the winter,
Shoots of the big green whisper of the year,
Come up, if only for young feet.
Come up, young feet ask you.
"Spring Grass" © 1928, 1956, by Carl Sandburg.
Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Inc.
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