TOO STILL FOR DREAMS
for SATB Divisi & piano
Music by: E.K.R. Hammell
Text by: A.E. Wetherald
Commissioned and premiered by Modern Sound Collective in 2022.
Drawing on the poetry of Canadian writer A.E. Wetherald, Too Still for Dreams invites the listener into an otherworldly realm where the forest’s eerie stillness transforms into mystical invocation.
Woodland Worship (excerpt)
…it seems
too still for dreams.
The House of the Trees
Ope your doors and take me in,
Spirit of the wood;
Wash me clean of dust and din,
Clothe me in your mood.
Take me from the noisy light
To the sunless peace,
Where at midday standeth Night,
Signing Toil’s release.
[All your dusky twilight stores
To my senses give;
Take me in and lock the doors,
Show me how to live.]
Lift your leafy roof for me,
Part your yielding walls,
Let me wander lingeringly
Through your scented halls.
Ope your doors and take me in,
Spirit of the wood;
Take me—make me next of kin
To your leafy brood.
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MSC0003 – Too Still For Dreams – SCORE PERUSAL PDF
PROGRAM NOTE:
Commissioned and premiered by Modern Sound Collective in 2022, Too Still for Dreams draws its inspiration from several poems by Canadian writer A.E. Wetherald. In these texts, Wetherald reveals a deep sense of awe and mysticism towards the forest world. When writing the music, I imagined the narrator taking a slow, cautious walk in the woods at dusk, eventually succumbing to the eerie stillness of the environment and entering into a state of transcendence and reverence for nature.
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