voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1426 | duration: 4:35 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano

The Langston Hughes poem warns us that “when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.” The message is one to live by, and as can be expected of this composer, the music is special.

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CLICK HERE: Read the text

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

 

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Featured on the following reading sessions
2018 | Spokane Falls MEA Winter Reading Session 1/10
2018 | North Jersy School Music Assoc. Feb 10th
2018 | MMIA Directors Reading Session
2018 | Kodaly Conference - Judith Herrington, clinician
2017 | AVA Fall Workshop, in Birmingham, AL on 9/8
2017 | California ACDA Northern Region Fall Conference Reading Session
2017 | FL ACDA Fall Conference Reading Session - 11/3