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Timothy C. Takach
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Imagine We Are Trees
This is about being there for someone else, supporting them, but also needing support.
SATB, a cappella
This lovely piece explores two trees as a metaphor for love, for caring. After the opening vocalese embodies the branching out of a growing tree, we are treated to Takach’s usual careful setting of Julia Klatt Singer’s beautiful poetry. Text stress is natural, and comprehension of the poem is preserved. Your singers and your audience will fall in love with this piece.
Composer’s Notes
There’s a certain closeness in Julia Klatt Singer’s poem, and I can’t decide if it’s about a couple or a parent/child relationship. I don’t think I’m going to decide, because it’s beautiul either way. The opening of this piece is a musical illustration of a tree, growing and branching out. The smaller elements that begin stay, and make the rest stronger and more colorful over time. There are some ritards throughout: take your time with some of these moments, and let the text sing. This piece is about being there for someone else, supporting them, but also the need to be supported.
– Timothy C. Takach, 2019
Text
Imagine we are trees.
Both about to bud
We are itching with tiny leaves
To shake and shade each other with.
We’ve known each other forever,
Weathered all of it.
There, when you lost a limb
I swayed and prayed in my trunk
you’d not go down. We shed
what we no longer need
no longer can hold up
to the light. I’ve seen you
in twilight blue, seen the moon
cradled in your branches.
This morning your canopy
Glazed in tangerine light.
If this isn’t love
I don’t know what is.
– Julia Klatt Singer
– Used with permission.
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