Broken Ground
$10.00
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This piece sets the title poem from Wendell Berry’s first book of poems. The poem, “The Broken Ground,” gives a very sensual description of the transforming cycle of earth to bud to flower to seed. The last lines of the poem, “taken from what was, from what could have been. What is left is what is,” becomes a wonderful meditation on the mystery of this cycle. This piece should be sung with a pure tone (minimal or no vibrato), and continuous attention to dynamics.
AATB and SSAA versions commissioned by The Jenny Lind Singers of Augustana College, Rock Island, IL (Drew Collins, Conductor) with funds provided by The New Choral Music for Women’s Voices Commissioning Project.
