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Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore
How can we let it all slip through our fingers? (from A Calendar of Light)
This piece asks how we can let the world we know and love disappear before our eyes.
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A Calendar of Light
SATB Chorus & Two-Part Audience
In A Calendar of Light, from which this piece is excerpted, our relationship to the changing seasons reflects our relationship to change itself, especially within the greater context of climate change. Barbara Crooker’s libretto asks resonant questions (“How can we let it all slip through our fingers?”), holding us accountable for altering our relationship with the earth for the better. This movement’s refrain asks the audience to join in singing, inviting reflection and action.
Composer’s Notes
This work was commissioned by The Esoterics and is dedicated, with gratitude, to its Artistic Director, Eric Banks. A Calendar of Light was composed in part at the Tusen Takk Foundation, with thanks to Geoffrey Peckham and Patricia Melzer for their generous support.
-Dale Trumbore
Text
How can we let it all slip through our fingers?
—Barbara Crooker
This piece excerpts Crooker’s poem “Sonnet from Ecclesiastes: Ecclesiastes 1:9.”
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