Gwyneth Walker EER TWO WERE ONE or Mixed Chorus ased on the oetry o Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Commissioned y Stace Stegman as a git to his wie Sandra rey Stegman Duration: ' 15" rogram Notes The lyrics or this song are taken rom two oems o Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): "To My Dear and Loving Husand" and "A Letter to Her Husand Asent Uon ulic Emloyment" The irst oem is a simle testament o loving devotion while the second (a ragment o which is intersersed into the song text) ortrays the ain o searation/distance and the oy o reunion The musical setting unolds in three sections The irst oem is resented in hrases which oen as the lines diverge A listener might imagine a lower oening Or the reading o the oem with a sigh o ecstasy ater each line The intensity and range o the hrases increases until the words: "Then while we live in love let us so ersevere that when we live no more we may live ever" The middle section laments the asence o the husand As the Soranos and Altos sing the new words the Tenors and Basses quietly reeat a attern o: "we may live ever" as a ackground inally the voices oin together to sing the assionate lines: "lesh o thy lesh one o thy one here thou there yet oth are one" And then the oening section returns more owerully than eore concluding with a triumhant: "When we live no more we may live ever!" Aout the Comoser Dr Gwyneth Walker ( 197) is a graduate o Brown University and the Hartt School o Music She holds MM and DM Degrees in Music Comosition A ormer aculty memer o the Oerlin College Conservatory Walker resigned rom academic emloyment in 1982 in order to ursue a career as a ull-time comoser She now lives on a dairy arm in Braintree ermont Walker's catalog includes over 10 commissioned works or orchestra and chorus and chamer ensemles The music o Gwyneth Walker is ulished y EC Schirmer o Boston (choral vocal music) and MMB Music o St Louis (orchestral instrumental music) Gwyneth Walker is a roud resident o ermont She is the reciient o the Year 2000 Lietime Achievement Award rom the ermont Arts Council
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