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November  Night   [2024] c.9'

for SSATB Choir // Text by Adelaide Crapsey

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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.

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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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Recording Coming Soon

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