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Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore
December Light (from A Calendar of Light)
Even the darkest winter nights are filled with starlight.
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A Calendar of Light
SATB Chorus
In December Light, even the darkest winter lights are brightened by starlight dancing off of snow. The returning light offers a metaphor for resilience, with luminous dawns “full of hope / no matter what else we know.” This piece is excerpted from A Calendar of Light, a 75-minute work that takes the shape of a calendar and holds us accountable for our relationship with the earth, especially in the greater context of climate change. Ultimately, the piece calls for 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
DECEMBER LIGHT
In this icy light, the ghostly fronds
of ice ferns cover the glass,
as the sky descends,
erasing first the far blue hills,
the cornfield hatchmarked with stubble,
coming to our street—
the sky flinging itself
down to the ground.
These winter nights
are never black and dense,
but white, starlight
dancing off the land.
And then the luminous dawns,
the pearled skies full of hope
no matter what else we know.
—Barbara Crooker
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