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The breathtakingly talented musician Sarah Marze set my poem "Winter Calls for You" to music. I feel deeply honored. The Goldsmiths Choral Union sang it on December 13, 2024 at St. John's, Sloane Square, London, under the direction of Jack Apperley. Sarah Marze will have an enduring impact on the world of music. Check out her site at sarahmarze.com.
Winter Calls for You
Sky cover, an eggshell: translucent
Time steeper, sleep keeper, silence dreamer.
Life is at rest and mother-warmed within
A globe within a globe, all life, one life
Under the sun, the press of mother love
And silence, sky cover fractures, dissolves
Light and shadow, swaddles the newborn day
With love promise: winter is for closed eyes
And slowed, quiet hunger. Let spring wake you,
Unwrap you, hold you, raise you lightward,
Open-eyed, filled with dreams of winter night,
Returned from the universe of star souls.
So ends the year as winter starts anew.
Cold earth dims her lights and calls for you.
My poem "Walking" greets guests who walk the trails at Firefly Hill Farm at 1692 North Main Street in Woodbury, Connecticut. The mindful forest walks are open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from now until December 1. The Siemon family have put poems, including pieces by Maya Angelou, Wendell Berry, and Mary Oliver, nature facts, and wooden sculptures along the trails for a wonderful experience of nature, poetry, and art.
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This is the world premiere of composer Sarah Marze's choral song titled "Waking, Dreaming," performed at the Leroy Anderson House national historic landmark in Woodbury, Connecticut.
The song is derived from a sonnet of the same name by Woodbury poet laureate Sandy Carlson.
Marze, pianist Emma Bocciarelli, and the Voicebox octet and its conductors demonstrated how they transform words into music.
