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Wind (2014)

SATB/SSAA, piano
Published by J.W. Pepper

Setting of an original text by the composer that uses picturesque musical elements underscored by a propulsive piano accompaniment to express the nature and importance of wind

Duration: 4’


Swift as an eagle,
Warm like the sun,
Cold as an ice cube,
You can never outrun.

Although you can’t see it,
You know that it’s there,
As the fluttering autumn leaves
Caress your hair.

Blow Wind. Blow Wind.

Twisting and twirling
It shoots through the sky
Quickly scattering snowflakes
In the wink of an eye

But just try to hold it –
A fool’s errand indeed –
Because it weighs nothing
You’ll never succeed.

Blow Wind. Blow Wind.

It can sing like a whisper,
Or make a loud roar.
While trees bend before it,
Birds use it to soar.

But the gauge of its power
Is so easy to see,
For it carries the seeds
Of what makes you and me.

Filed Under: Accompanied, Choral Music, Treble Choir Tagged With: Piano, SATB, SSAA

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