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Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer and writer whose music has been praised by The New York Times for its “soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies.” Her music has been widely performed in the U.S. and internationally by ensembles including the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Chorale, Pasadena Symphony, The Singers...
Dale Trumbore
Sometimes Peace Comes (from How to Go On)
This stand-alone movement from secular requiem How to Go On evokes peace after a devastating experience.
SSAATTBB a cappella, Alto solo
from How to Go On
“Sometimes Peace Comes” is a movement from Trumbore’s secular requiem How to Go On. This movement sets poet Laura Foley’s meditation on how it feels to experience peace. Composed for the versatile singers of Choral Arts Initiative, How to Go On ultimately finds beauty and release in the embrace of everyday life.
“Sometimes Peace Comes” may be performed as a stand-alone piece or alongside other movements of How to Go On.
Composer’s Notes
Read interviews with the librettists and an essay on the creative process of composing How to Go On at daletrumbore.com/how-to-go-on.
Text
Sometimes peace is like this:
endless and gentle and soft
and no compulsion to go
anywhere. And even the fire
you walked through,
even the trail of ashes
is gone, not even a memory
in your heart,
and even the sun is still,
unmoving and quiet,
and you have stepped into
a place beyond time,
beyond sadness and form.
A wide, high plain
where in the endless, deep silence
you find out what it is,
what it is,
and your part in it.
— Laura Davies Foley
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