Preview: Yonder: For a Capella Mixed Chorus on Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Ec
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Yonder: For a Capella Mixed Chorus on Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Ec
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SKU: A0.939650
Composed by Richard St. Clair. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary. Octavo. 27 pages. Richard St. Clair #3000241. Published by Richard St. Clair (A0.939650).This work was awarded the George Arthur Knight Composition Prize in 1972 by Harvard University. The audio clip is the complete recording of the premiere performance at Harvard in May, 1974. St. Clair's music uses tone-painting to highlight Hopkins' ecstatic and visually compelling verse. Leonard Bernstein highlighted Hopkins' great poem as an example of vivid language in his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures of 1972 at Harvard University. The closing word of Hopkins' poem, "yonder", provided the title for this composition.
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