Here is a performance of my new choral piece The Balloons. Performed at The Baltimore School for the Arts Graduation on June 1, 2008.
Arielle Armstrong, Rachel Coats, Patricia Hengen, Robert Falcon, Lawrence Bryant, Tevin Brown, Wesley Dessesow, and Sarah Walker
Scott AuCoin, conductor
So I really enjoyed writing this piece so much fun and such a nice test of color. Here is the text.
Les Ballons
Against these turbid turquoise skies
The light and luminous balloons
Dip and drift like satin moons,
Drift like silken butterflies;
Reel with every windy gust,
Rise and reel like dancing girls,
Float like strange transparent pearls,
Fall and float like silver dust.
Now to the low leaves they cling,
Each with coy fantastic pose,
Each a petal of a rose
Straining at a gossamer string.
Then to the tall trees they climb,
Like thin globes of amethyst,
Wandering opals keeping tryst
With the rubies of the lime.
-Oscar Wilde
YouTube - AuCoin: The Balloons
Enjoy! And comments are always welcomed!
