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Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore
Relinquishment (from How to Go On)
This movement from secular requiem How to Go On questions how we move through loss with grace.
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How to Go On
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However Difficult
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To See It
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Requiescat
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Knowing the End
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Sometimes Peace Comes
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When At Last
SSAATTBB, a cappella, soli
This is a movement from Trumbore’s secular requiem How to Go On. Composed for the versatile singers of Choral Arts Initiative, How to Go On confronts themes of grief and mortality, ultimately finding beauty and release in the embrace of everyday life.
This movement may be performed as a stand-alone piece or alongside other movements of How to Go On.
Composer’s Notes
Read interviews with the librettists and an essay on the creative process of composing How to Go On at daletrumbore.com/how-to-go-on.
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I am looking at pale blue ponds of melted ice
on a frozen river
and in them perfect clouds passing.
Wind sends ripples along the water
and trees cut sharp lines into the sky. Soon
it will be gone, all of it
and I will be sitting in darkness,
sitting by a dark window, glad
for having seen this earth,
her elegant grace,
how she turns away from the sun.
And I will be learning, again,
how to give it all up by simply turning.
How to give it up to darkness, all you love. All of it.
How to give it up again and again.
— Laura Foley
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