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Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962) grew up in the Carolinas and Appalachian Ohio. Her love of music, language and challenging questions is reflected in her catalog of over 100 songs and choral works, and a style which moves effortlessly between concert stage, choir loft and jam session. Her music has been performed by soloists, chamber musicians...
Elizabeth Alexander (Seafarer Press)
Like a Leaf
A rhapsodic setting of Wendell Berry’s wise, simple words.
SATB, piano
A rhapsodic setting of Wendell Berry’s wise and simple prayer: “When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf.”
Equally appropriate for concert stages, memorial services and graduation ceremonies, “Like a Leaf” is a wholehearted affirmation of the joys and sorrows of life.
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When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird.
When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf.
-Wendell Berry
From “Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer” from The Mad Farmer Poems. © 2008 by Wendell Berry. Used by permission of Counterpoint.
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