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J. David Moore

J. David Moore is a composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, and Southerner who has lived in the Upper Midwest for most of his life. His music has been called “endlessly inventive,” “glorious…haunting…breathtaking,” and “joyous…wild and elemental.” He publishes through his company Fresh Ayre Music, and is the founder and conductor of The First Readings Project, a...

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In the Sky of Winter

Name: In the Sky of Winter
SKU: FAM-0018-02dg
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J. David Moore

A Minnesota winter landscape for a trio of women’s voices.

Choral

treble choir

a cappella

Difficulty: 3

Duration: less than 3 min.

FAM-0018-02dg

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Tom Hennen is a quiet, reclusive Minnesota poet, offset printer, and nature watcher. “In the Sky Of Winter” is from his collection of prose poems called Crawling Out the Window (1997). In it, he describes the winter disappearance of flying insects, in response to which the sky “lonesome without its tiny aviators, has filled the air with snowflakes.”

The musical setting is for a trio of women’s voices; hushed, cool, and intimate.

Text

First day of winter and it seems all the insects are dead.
None sail around any more or chirp or buzz or sudden-
ly forget the art of flying above your soup. But they are
there, under the leaves, burrowed into frozen plowing.
Little wings folded, legs tucked close. They are in the tiny
cases of their bodies, alive, some of them, but still as
fallen twigs or stones. Meanwhile, the sky, lonesome
without its tiny aviators, has filled the air with snowflakes.

– Tom Hennen

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