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Lola Ridge Songs: Shadows over a cradle... (2022)

for TTBB choir | 00:02:30

by Melissa Dunphy | text by Lola Ridge

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Original SSAA version commissioned for Ancora by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir (Robert Geary, director).


Shadows over a cradle...
From Sun-Up by Lola Ridge (1920)

(Shadows over a cradle...
fire-light craning...
A hand
throws something in the fire
and a smaller hand
runs into the flame and out again,
singed and empty...
Shadows
settling over a cradle...
two hands
and a fire.)