Nothing Gold Can Stay (2023)
for SAB choir | 00:02:00
by Melissa Dunphy | text by Robert Frost
Commissioned by Singing City Choir of Philadelphia for the Singing City Songbook.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Artwork by Singing City
Performances
- 30 May, 2023: Singing City at Friends Center, Philadelphia, PA
- 23 May, 2023: Singing City at Friends Center, Philadelphia, PA