A Blade of Grass
VIDEO
VIDEO
University of Illinois Oratorio Society and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra; Central Illinois Children's Chorus; Stephen Alltop, conductor
DURATION
2’30”
INSTRUMENTATION
SATB (div.) with soprano soloist, pno
POET
Walt Whitman
YEAR COMPOSED
2014
COMMISSIONER
San Francisco Choral Society in collaboration with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir
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Terra Nostra
ORDERING SCORES
Theodore Presser Company
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TEXT
A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars.
Long and long has the grass been growing,
Long and long has the rain been falling,
Long has the globe been rolling round.