Sarah Quartel Songbook - upper voices
for upper voices in two to four parts, with piano or unaccompanied The Sarah Quartel Songbook brings together a selection of the composer's best-loved pieces for upper voices, including favourites such as The Birds' Lullaby and I remember, as well as a new setting of Sara Teasdale's life-affirming poem Refuge. This is an invaluable resource both for choirs looking to explore the work of this fine choral composer for the first time and for admirers of Quartel's style hoping to find staple repertoire conveniently gathered together in one volume
for upper voices in two to four parts, with piano or unaccompanied
The Sarah Quartel Songbook brings together a selection of the composer's best-loved pieces for upper voices, including favourites such as The Birds' Lullaby and I remember, as well as a new setting of Sara Teasdale's life-affirming poem Refuge. This is an invaluable resource both for choirs looking to explore the work of this fine choral composer for the first time and for admirers of Quartel's style hoping to find staple repertoire conveniently gathered together in one volume
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Commissioned by the Treble Makers Women’s Choir and Sharon Little, Chief Treble Maker,<br />
to mark their 10th anniversary, their farewell concert, and Canada’s 150th anniversary<br />
In time of silver rain<br />
35<br />
Langston Hughes (1902 – 67)<br />
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Duration: 2.5 mins<br />
First performed by the Treble Makers Women’s Choir, directed by Sharon Little, at West Lorne United Church, West Lorne,<br />
Ontario, on 29 April 2017.<br />
Also available in versions for unison <strong>voices</strong> and piano (978 – 0 –19–355086 –5), SABar and piano (978 – 0–19–354007–1), and solo voice and<br />
piano (high voice 978 – 0 –19–354954–8/low voice 978 – 0 –19–354955–5).<br />
Music © Oxford University Press 2018. Text © 1994 The Estate of Langston Hughes, by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.<br />
Photocopying this copyright material is ILLEGAL.
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