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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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
2020 | Texas Choral Directors Association 2020 Winter Conference - January 3
2019 | SD ARDA Summer - July-August 2, 2019 - J Fauss & A Deckert
2019 | San Jose State Choral Workshops-July 15, Benson/C Archibeque
2019 | GA ACDA Summer Conference - June 20-21 - Spivey Hall, Clayton State Univ.
2019 | KY ACDA Reading Session
2018 | North Jersy School Music Assoc. Feb 10th
2018 | Spokane Falls MEA Winter Reading Session 1/10
2018 | Kodaly Conference - Judith Herrington, clinician
2018 | MMIA Directors Reading Session
2017 | FL ACDA Fall Conference Reading Session - 11/3
2017 | California ACDA Northern Region Fall Conference Reading Session
2017 | AVA Fall Workshop, in Birmingham, AL on 9/8