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A Blade of Grass | STACY GARROP

STACY GARROP

a composer with a story to tell

a composer with a story to tell

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

THIS IS A MOVEMENT FROM:
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.