Recuerdo
for SATB Choir with Piano
Title: Recuerdo
Instrumentation: SATB Choir with divisi, pno
Date of Composition: 2012
Duration:
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Program Note
A charming romantic memory for SATB with piano, Recuerdo is a lighthearted recollection of the "perfect date." An easy to moderate setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's timeless poem.
We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.
We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, "God bless you!" for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
Recuerdo