Swifts
$10.00
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Commissioned by the Young Naperville Singers, Ina Heup, Director
For their 15th anniversary concert celebrating “family ties.”
Chimney Swifts and their fascinating ways present a wonderful metaphor for family life. Singing is a form of flying. It might be said we sing because we cannot fly. The chimney swift from the “family apodidae,” the most acrobatic of birds, illuminates this yearning.
This song is a story of their life. The treble parts are the swifts and the lower voices are the chimney. The singing should be animated, and the singers are encouraged to gesticulate illustrative flight patterns with their hands as they sing. Here is where you truly get to throw your voice “free as a bird.”
