To a Friend, Giselle Wyers | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

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To a Friend [level: Medium]
Giselle Wyers: Bio and other works | Giselle Wyers Choral Series

voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1472 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

The Amy Lowell text ends “leave my heart its songs!” The composer’s hallmark is her sensitive setting of texts. This piece is no exception.

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CLICK HERE: Read the text

I ask but one thing of you, only one,
That always you will be my dream of you;
That never shall I wake to find untrue
All this I have believed and rested on,
Forever vanished, like a vision gone
Out into the night. Alas, how few
There are who strike in us a chord we knew
Existed, but so seldom heard its tone
We tremble at the half-forgotten sound.
The world is full of rude awakenings
And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground,
Yet still our human longing vainly clings
To a belief in beauty through all wrongs.
O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!

Amy Lowell

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Featured on the following reading sessions
2018 | Dorian Vocal Festival - Luther College, Decorah, IA - 1/15
2018 | Toledo, OH Reading Session - Clinicians: Brad Pierson and Richard Schnipke
2018 | NJMEA2018, Aug 7, 2018, Joe Cantaffa, Gunther Kahlil