Classical Music | Choral Music

Michael Gandolfi

Winter Light  Play

The Grant Park Music Festival’s Apprentice Chorale Chorale
Project Inclusion String Quartet Quartet
Christopher Bell Conductor

Recorded on 06/25/2014, uploaded on 11/13/2014

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Winter Light  on two poems by Amy Lowell, Falling Snow and Opal

Falling Snow

The snow whispers around me

And my wooden clogs

Leave holes behind me in the snow.

But no one will pass this way

Seeking my footsteps,

And when the temple bell rings again

They will be covered and gone.

 

Opal

You are ice and fire,

The touch of you burns my hands like snow.

You are cold and flame.

You are the crimson of amaryllis,

The silver of moon-touched magnolias.

When I am with you,

My heart is a frozen pond

Gleaming with agitated torches.