SKU: BA.BA01541
ISBN 9790006411504. Text: Mörike, Eduard.
From the Morike-Chorliederbuch
SKU: MN.CH-1146
No 2 from Three Hymns for Communion, Opus 65/VI. This piece was written for St. Margaret's Church, Prague, after the communists had disbanded the children's choir there. It is composed in an especially poignant, lushly chromatic tonal style, and can be performed by unison or two-part treble choir and organ, or SAB mixed choir and organ. Latin and English texts. Duration 2:30.
SKU: CF.CM6652
ISBN 9781491144824. UPC: 680160902323. 6.875 X 10.5 inches. Key: C major. English.
Persichetti was a big fan of the poetry of e.e. cummings, having set a number of texts to music. Four Cummings Choruses, Op. 98, Flower Songs (Cantata No. 6), Op. 157, Glad and Very (5 Cummings Choruses, Cantata No. 5), Op. 129, Spring Cantata (Cantata No. 1), Op. 94, and Two Cummings Choruses, Op. 33 (G. Schirmer) are among his best-known choral works. The two poems in Opus 46 are very dissimilar; while Hist Whist may best be performed in a Halloween concert (little ghost-things, twitchy witches, the old woman with the wart on her nose), This Is the Garden is a flowing, layered, multi-colored descriptive choral. The Two cummings Choruses was premiered at the 1952 MTNA Conference in Dallas, TX by the Sigma Alpha Iota Chorus.
