Lola Ridge Songs: Shadows over a cradle... (2015)
for SSAA 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.
Related Works
Lola Ridge Songs (SSAA choir)
It's strange about stars... (SSAA choir)
It's strange about stars... (TTBB choir)
Different kinds of shadows (SSAA choir)
It isn't a dream... (SSAA choir)
Artwork by Aurelian Sandulescu.
Other Arrangements
TTBB 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.)
Performances
- 08 Mar, 2025: Cornell University Chorus at Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- 16 Dec, 2024: Chesapeake High School Chamber Singers at Chesapeake High School, Pasadena, MD
- 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