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Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore
Measured Sands (SSA Choral score)
A reflection on loss, longing, and the power of returning to the sea.
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Measured Sands
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Measured Sands
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Measured Sands
SSA Chorus, Harp, Piano & Cello (This is the piano/choral rehearsal score).
With vivid coastal imagery and layered emotional landscapes, Measured Sands reflects on memory, loss, and the power of returning to the same place over a lifetime. As the harp, piano and cello mimic the ebb and flow of ocean tides and memories, the chorus describes a place where the past resurfaces with haunting clarity.
Composer’s Notes
Measured Sands was commissioned by the Green Lake Festival of Music Composer Residency (John C. Hughes, conductor).
-Dale Trumbore
Text
Still afraid to touch down
in murky waters, I return
to the place that reveals me
to myself.
We were children saying
someday we’ll be here
with our children.
Our desire to come back
was barnacled with wanting
as the rock by which
we measured the tide.
Younger, we dug for clams
on sandbars, found the sand
was greyer, yielding, darker,
only when we dug deeper.
I imagined, here, I’d hold
a daughter. Now, my brother
swims with his son.
The water level’s higher
in the bay, the ocean
hardly covering the rock.
This place holds every tide,
the daughter she lost.
It offers up each empty shell,
each immutable stone,
the memories we buried
in the sand, greyer, yielding,
darker the deeper we dig.
—Dale Trumbore
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