The Beauty of Life, Robert S. Cohen | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

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The Beauty of Life [level: Medium]
Robert S. Cohen: Bio and other works

voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1299 | duration: 2:45 | price: $2.10
accompaniment: piano

The superbly imaginative poem of Ronald Cadmus comes to vivid life via this creative composition. With its theme of saving the planet and all the creatures therein, this is truly a song worth singing.

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from her collection Flame and Shadow, 1920
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
Float in the garden when no wind blows,
Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
So the old tunes float in my mind,
And go from me leaving no trace behind,
Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.
But in the instant the airs remain
I know the laughter and the pain
Of times that will not come again.
I try to catch at many a tune
Like petals of light fallen from the moon,
Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,
But they float away — for who can hold
Youth, or perfume or the moon’s gold?

By Ronald W. Cadmus

Young Voices of Colorado - Signature - Jena Dickey, conductor

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Featured on the following reading sessions
2016 | Kodaly Educators Convention March 11-12, 2016
2016 | Colorado ACDA Reading Session - July 18th
2015 | Pennsylvania ACDA August 3