PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- Russell Horton

SKU: BT.PMC4516

Evening Waterfall comes from a cycle of eleven a cappella choral pieces derived from Early Moon, a collection of poetry by Carl Sandburg. The images in these simple, direct lyrics have a depth and resonance that all but cry outfor musical expression. Evening Waterfall is one of the easiest, certainly the most diatonic, of the Early Moon pieces. Imagine yourself, or perhaps, your childhood self, sitting in a tree or lying on the grass in the gloaming ofa summer's evening. The sounds of birds, the feel of wind on your skin, the sight of early stars: all seem to conspire to give you a name...to call you by your real name. But such knowledge--a kind of certainty about one's selfand place--is ephemeral. It cannot be willed to appear, or to stay. We are left alone, wondering what was the name you called me? and why did you go so soon?

SKU: BT.PMC4513

Names comes from a cycle of 11 a cappella choral pieces derived from Early Moon, a collection of poetry by Carl Sandberg. The images in these simple, direct lyrics have a depth and resonance that all but cry out for musicalexpression. Names is the first piece in the cycle, and it simply, like a small child, names things - names them with a growing awareness of their generality, and their unity. A horse is more than an individual horse - fish, birds,men, woemn, children: they are, all of them, something larger than they seem - and they are named All God's children.