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Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore
April (from A Calendar of Light)
This lighthearted piece about April rain and a journey full of wrong turns features a sparkling mezzo solo.
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A Calendar of Light
SATB Chorus & Mezzo-Soprano Solo
April imagines a writer feeling the pull to return home—a “tug” as strong as “the way the earth pulls the rain down to meet it.” In this lighthearted, upbeat piece, the “small, fine, music of the rain” dances through a sparkling mezzo solo. Even despite the inevitable false starts and wrong turns, the piece suggests, we find our way back to the right road. This piece is excerpted from A Calendar of Light, a 75-minute work that takes the shape of a calendar and holds us accountable for our relationship with the earth.
Composer’s Notes
This work was commissioned by The Esoterics and is dedicated, with gratitude, to its Artistic Director, Eric Banks. A Calendar of Light was composed in part at the Tusen Takk Foundation, with thanks to Geoffrey Peckham and Patricia Melzer for their generous support.
-Dale Trumbore
Text
[April slips on her green silk dress]
a soft lilac shawl across her arms,
and dances to the small fine music of the rain.
I was away for a week, writing, happy to be alone
and working again, but then home began to tug
at me, the way the earth pulls the rain
down to meet it. And I love the road,
the journey, the whole difficult trip of it,
the long slow uphill climbs, the unexpected
bends, the side roads, the false starts,
every wrong turning. Dogwoods fill the woods
with their white light, kid gloves worn at a ball.
I’m going down the road, singing the radio.
And my heart is as green as the rain.
—Barbara Crooker
This piece sets Crooker’s poem “April slips on her green silk dress.”
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