Deborah Mason

"A Strange Courage"

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 9.5 minutes

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: choral

Publisher: Deborah Mason


Video Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E3ydzSpeXs


Score PDF: Strange-Courage.pdf

Description: SSAATTBB and Piano Text : "NUANCES OF A THEME BY WILLIAMS" by Wallace Stevens expanding on four lines by William Carlos Williams by pemission of Alfred A. Knopf, publisher It’s a strange courage you give me, ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! I Shine alone, shine nakedly, shine like bronze, that reflects neither my face nor any inner part of my being, shine like fire, that mirrors nothing. II Lend no part to any humanity that suffuses you in its own light. Be not chimera of morning, Half-man, half-star. Be not an intelligence, Like a widow’s bird Or an old horse.

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