Four Longfellow Settings

This choral cycle, consisting of a cappella settings of four poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, may be used as a set or individual movements may be excerpted. Originally commissioned by the three high schools of Winchester, Virginia for a joint concert, these pieces will be found suitable for college, university and community choirs as well.

DH0206 - Four Longfellow Settings - $4.40 -

Complete Score

Snow Flakes

Aftermath

My Cathedral

Night

If the "music is in the words," these four settings of Longfellow poetry should be in the standard repertoire of every choral group. The words literally sing off of the page with such rightness and direction that the poetry itself is transformed.

John Yarrington

Director of Choral Activities

Houston Baptist University

Posted by John Yarrington