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Lola Ridge Songs: Shadows over a cradle... (2015)

for SSAA choir | 00:02:30

by Melissa Dunphy | text by Lola Ridge

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Commissioned for Ancora by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir (Robert Geary, director).


Shadows over a cradle...
From Sun-Up by Lola Ridge (1920)

(Shadows over a cradle...
fire-light craning...
A hand
throws something in the fire
and a smaller hand
runs into the flame and out again,
singed and empty...
Shadows
settling over a cradle...
two hands
and a fire.)

Artwork by Aurelian Sandulescu


Performances

  • 16 Nov, 2019: Nazareth College Treble Choir at Glazer Music Performance Center, Rochester, NY
  • 26 Apr, 2018: McNeese State University Women's Ensemble at Tritico Theatre, Lake Charles, LA
  • 20 Apr, 2018: McNeese State University Women's Ensemble at First United Methodist Church, Lake Charles, LA
  • 05 Mar, 2016: Acalanes High School Bella Voce at 2016 Northern California Golden State Choral Competition, CA
  • 31 Jan, 2016: Volti Choral Institute at CYO Retreat Center, Occidental, CA
  • 27 Mar, 2015: Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir at First Congregational Church of Berkeley, CA