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The Rewaking (2005)

For male chorus
(SATB version also available)
Text by William Carlos Williams

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

BUY SCORE (for SATB)
BUY SCORE (for TTBB)

Text

Scott Tucker, conductor of the Conrnell University Glee Club

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

 

The Conrnell University Glee Club
Selected Reviews

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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