Be the Seed, Joan Szymko | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

Be the Seed [level: Difficult]
Joan Szymko: Bio and other works

RELEASED: March 2026

voicing: SSAA | catalog number: SBMP1872 | duration: 3'12" | price: $2.80
accompaniment: piano

Here is a powerful and inspiring concert closer for advanced treble choirs. This dynamic work features a driving rhythmic piano accompaniment, engaging moments for every voice part, and compelling mixed meter time changes. With extended vocal ranges and a bold musical impact, it’s an outstanding choice for upper level festivals and honor choirs.

performance by: Muskego High School - Genevieve Michels, conductor [© all rights reserved]

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

CLICK HERE: Read the Text or Poem

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Be the seed with feather crown,
be the bead bristling with legacy for life.
Lift your gift, go seeking, sifting down
into this seam in concrete wet, forsaken,
yearning for a root thread you send fingering,
lingering, loving ever deeper into
dense dark.

Be the seed.
Be the shred of living.
Be the shred of living light
bedded in the broken world.

Be not afraid,
no matter how small
your poor power
against the powers that be—
no worry, no fear.

Be the seed where you are
for the long game, the strong change
by the many and the small.

All of us in our circle wider than division,
flowing, growing, greening, reaching,
waking, winding, rooting,
singing, bringing
with feathered crown the seed.

Kim Stafford

CLICK HERE: Choral Tracks (Practice made simple)

Be the Seed choral track bundle contains a part dominant track for each voice part, a balanced voices track, and an accompaniment track if the work is not a cappella (the accompaniment is also included with the part dominant and balanced voices track). Get more information and listen to samples HERE. Please note that the choral score is not included in the bundle and needs to be ordered separately.

Price: $49.99 (Each bundle is licensed to be used by up to 50 users)
Please adjust the quantity accordingly if you have more than 50 users.

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