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(performed by The Afternoon Singers, Director Maza Zimmerman.)

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Jeffrey Derus
Jeffrey Derus is an American composer, producer, and musician. His music has gained a worldwide presence with commissions and performances from ensembles such as Choral Arts Initiative, INSPIRARE, Constellation Men’s Ensemble, Inversion Ensemble, KC VITAS, the Nova Scotia Choral Federation, Temple University, and Vanguard University. Hailed as “powerful, dramatic, lucid” (Sonograma Magazine) and “elegant” (Voice...
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Afternoon On A Hill

Jeffrey Derus

Spending an afternoon on a hillside basking in natures beauty.

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SATB a cappella chorus with divisi

This piece brings you to a sunny hillside where one can ponder the beauty of this earth and how we live among it every day. The musicality of this piece is lyric and expressive, with exciting moments of vocal tension and release. The text has moments of contemplation and exploration. “Afternoon On A Hill” is the perfect piece to brighten up any program themed around nature and beauty.

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I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

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