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Joan Szymko

Joan Szymko is widely regarded as an outstanding composer of choral music in America today. With a catalog of over 100 choral works in print, her music is sung regularly at choral festivals and competitions across North America and abroad and for nearly two decades has been heard on stage or in sessions at every...

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At Such a Dizzy Height

Name: At Such a Dizzy Height
SKU: JS-026
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Joan Szymko

Music for dance: the finale of a visually stunning work drawing inspiration from the paintings of Chagall.

Choral

mixed choir

1-2 instruments, piano

variable

fall, secular, spring, summer, winter

Difficulty: 3

JS-026

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SATB, tenor, sop soli, piano, violin, cello

Late in his career, Marc Chagall produced a number of paintings in glass with colorful, dream-like images symbolizing peace, love, tolerance and faith. This choral work accompanies choreographer Robin Lane’s brilliant representation of Chagall’s famous “Peace Windows.” It is the finale of her “At Such a Dizzy Height,” a visually stunning work of aerial dance, circus arts, video, and live music which draws inspiration from the paintings of Chagall.

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We float, we go the window
We want to fly out
the walls spin all around us
We fly out over fields full of flowers
over rooftops, over tightly shuttered houses
We dream secret dreams, thirsting for love

Now, the candle flares up to the moon
Now, the moon flies down to our arms
the very road prays,the houses weep
the sky sails past on all sides.
The stars come out,they are my stars
They journey out with me,
they wait for me until I return
The stars come out, they are my stars
my sweet stars
Poor things, forgive me
I’ve left you alone up there at
such a dizzy height.

Our dreams, (Nos rêves)
our secret dreams (Nos rêves secrets)
they thirst for love (soif d’amour)
only for love.

– Adaptated by Robin Lane from quotes and letters of Marc & Bella Chagall.

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