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David von Kampen
David von Kampen
Here Among the Flowers
Various musical textures depict Chesterton’s clever poem.
SATB unaccompanied
This short piece will be a delightful excursion in any concert for an advanced SATB ensemble. The text’s sacred message is disguised to look and feel like a secular poem. Different musical textures depict contrasting moments of the text fast and rhythmic, then thicker and slower chordal writing, and concluding with a lively madrigal-style flourish.
Composer’s Notes
I had been saving G.K. Chesterton’s poem “The Skeleton” for the right project, and when Jackson Thomas and I began talking about a piece for KC VITAs early in 2017, I suggested it. I love how this poem’s serious message of Christian confidence is wrapped up in such playful imagery. Enjoy and exaggerate the contrasting sections!
– David von Kampen
Text
Chattering finch and waterfly
Are not merrier than I;
Here among the flowers I lie
Laughing everlastingly.
No, I may not tell the best;
Surely, friends, I might have guessed
Death was but the good King’s jest,
It was hid so carefully.
– G.K. Chesterton
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