November Night [2024] c.9'
for SSATB Choir // Text by Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey [1878-1914] is a poet renowned for her invention of the cinquain form. When I first discovered her poem "November Night" [published 1915], I was utterly moved by her ability to craft an evocative and otherworldly atmosphere with only a few lines of text.
November Night [2024] creates a meditative experience for audiences, inviting listeners on an immersive journey through her poem— capturing the intimate nature of her text with a sparse and ethereal soundscape— creating a sense of sonic and linguistic ambiguity through an intricate layering of vowels and consonants.

Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees,
And fall.
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