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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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A Winter Ride (SATB)

Name: A Winter Ride (SATB)
SKU: JS-092
Availability: InStock

Joan Szymko

Captures the thrill and exhilaration of galloping on horseback through an open field of snow.

fall, holiday, secular, winter

Difficulty: 3

Duration: less than 3 min.

JS-092

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A Winter Ride

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SATB, piano

Poet Amy Lowell captures the rush, the exhilaration of riding a horse through a snowy field on a bright, brisk winter day.
There are those experiences, often in nature or in the wild when physical boundaries disappear and one loses oneself in a joyful,
timeless realization of oneness. Lowell’s “A Winter Ride” is such an experience!

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A Winter Ride

Who shall declare the joy of the running!
Who shall tell of the pleasures of flight!
Springing and spurning the tufts of wild heather,
Sweeping, wide-winged, through the blue dome of light.
Everything mortal has moments immortal,
Swift and God-gifted, immeasurably bright.
So with the stretch of the white road before me,
Shining snowcrystals rainbowed by the sun,
Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue
shadows, Strong with the strength of my horse as we run.
Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight!
Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

– Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

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