Commissioned by the Cornell University Glee Club, Scott Tucker, Director
in honor
of Conductor Emeritus Thomas A. Sokol
Premiered by the Cornell Glee Club, Scott Tucker conducting, Ithaca, NY, September 2005
Duration: 5 minutes
Live performance by The Esoterics, Eric Banks, Composer and Conductor, Founding Director
The Rewaking
William Carlos Williams
Sooner or later
we must come to the end
of striving
to re-establish
the image the image of
the rose
but not yet
you say extending the
time indefinitely
by
your love until a whole
spring
rekindle
the violet to the very
lady's-slipper
and so by
your love the very sun
itself is revived
Geoffrey Wieting, The Boston Muscical Intelligencer, October 21, 2021 "[Chanticleer’s] sensitive treatment of Thomas’s word-painting by lightening texture and rising pitch at the close (“and so by your love the very sun itself is revived”) provided an inspiring ending."
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