Lola Ridge Songs: Shadows over a cradle... (2022)
for TTBB choir | 00:02:30
by Melissa Dunphy | text by Lola Ridge
About
Commissioned for Ancora by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir (Robert Geary, director).A rhythmic setting of Lola Ridge poetry that taps into primal memories of infancy, with fragmented impressions of fire and flickering shadows. Originally for treble chorus, this version is arranged for men's voices.
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SSAA choirLyrics
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.)