Now Touch the Air Softly, Susan LaBarr | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

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Now Touch the Air Softly [level: Medium]
Susan LaBarr: Bio and other works | Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series

voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1140 | duration: 6:00 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: piano

The exquisite poem by once U.S. poet laureate William Jay Smith inspired a beautifully crafted composition. Abundant with fine melodies, and blessed with a creative piano accompaniment, this promises to be a favorite of many choirs.

CLICK HERE: See and Hear the Complete Score or download a perusal copy: HERE

CLICK HERE: Read the text

Now touch the air softly,
Step gently, One, two...
I’ll love you till roses
Are robin’s-egg blue;
I’ll love you till gravel
Is eaten for bread,
And lemons are orange,
And lavender’s red.
Now touch the air softly,
Swing gently the broom.
I’ll love you till windows
Are all of a room;
And the table is laid,
And the table is bare,
And the ceiling reposes
On bottomless air.

I’ll love you till Heaven
Rips the stars from his coat,
And the Moon rows away in
A glass-bottomed boat;
And Orion steps down
Like a diver below;
And Earth is ablaze,
And Ocean aglow.

So touch the air softly,
And swing the broom high.
We will dust the gray mountains,
And sweep the blue sky;
And I’ll love you as long
As the furrow the plow,
As However is Ever,
And Ever is Now.

By William Jay Smith

Please note that the released version has an additional verse.
Recording by: Tennessee Chamber Chorus, Cameron LaBarr, conductor [© all rights reserved]

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Featured on the following reading sessions
2015 | TCDA Summer Reading Session
2014 | MMEA Reading Session February 21, 2014
2014 | MMEA Conference
2014 | GSU, UGA JUne 16, 23