Eleanor Aversa
Probably Helical
Year: 2013
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Gold Mosaic Publishing
Description: Commissioned by San Francisco Choral Artists, Magen Solomon, Artistic Director.
A tribute to biologist Rosalind Franklin, whose research provided evidence of the helical structure of DNA. The text for the piece is taken from her 1953 article in the journal Nature concluding, "the structure is probably helical."