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Linda Tutas Haugen
Linda Tutas Haugen (Ephraim Bay Publishing)
Sunshine and Cloudless Sky
The fourth movement from Anne Frank: A Living Voice, this music is full of motion and life!
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It Is The Silence
SSA, piano
The fourth movement from Anne Frank: A Living Voice, this music is full of motion and life!
Composer’s Notes
Taken from a larger work for women’s choir and string quartet, “Sunshine and Cloudless Sky” uses excerpts from Anne Frank’s Diary dated February, 1944 and March, 1944. These texts show how Anne was able to find meaning and beauty in nature in the midst of hiding in the secret annex.
– Linda Tutas Haugen
Text
Feb. 23, 1944. I go to the attic almost every morning . . . This morning . . . Peter was . . . cleaning up. He finished quickly and came over to where I was sitting . . . on the floor. The two of us [Peter and I] looked out at the blue sky, the bare chestnut tree glistening with dew, the seagulls and other birds glinting with silver as they swooped through the air, and we were so moved and entranced that we couldn’t speak . . . We breathed in the air, looked outside, and both felt that the spell shouldn’t be broken . . . ‘As long as this exists, . . . this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?’
March 7, 1944. I lie in bed at night, after ending my prayers with the words, ‘thank you God for all that is good and dear and beautiful,’ and I’m filled with joy . . . At such moments I don’t think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains . . .
– Text from the The Diary of Anne Frank
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