SKU | 4378* |
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Composer/Arranger | Conte, David |
Text Author | Whitman, Walt |
Voicing & Instruments | SATB, Chamber Orchestra or Piano |
Difficulty | Moderately Difficult |
Reviews | "Invocation and Dance sets words from Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and it was written for the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus in 1986. Conte created this version for mixed chorus a few years later. It begins with Whitman's line, 'Come lovely and soothing death,' and the piano's golden high notes are brightened further with glockenspiel and vibraphone while bass octaves pulse in a funeral march. The 'Dance' [is] a Berstein-esque setting in compound meter." - Stephen Estep, The American Record Guide, November/December 2016. Used by permission. |
Publisher | E. C. Schirmer Music Company |
Recording Credits | Towson University Chorale, Paul Rardin, conductor |
Based on a text drawn from Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom'd." A hymn to nature and the place of death within the cycle of life on earth. Invocation and Dance is included on the album "Facing West: Choral Music of Conrad Susa and David Conte." Duration: 13:00