Lola Ridge Songs: It's strange about stars... (2014)
for SSAA choir | 00:03:00
by Melissa Dunphy | text by Lola Ridge
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"There’s much beauty to be found in Melissa Dunphy’s “It’s Strange About Stars …” [Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities Pioneer Press]
It's strange about stars...
From Sun-Up [IV. Betty] by Lola Ridge (1920)
It's strange about stars ...
You have to be still when they look at you.
They push your song inside of you with their song.
Their long silvery rays
sink into you and do not hurt.
It is good to feel them resting on you
like great white birds...
and their shining whiteness
doesn't burn like the sun —
it washes all over you
and makes you feel cleaner'n water.
Artwork by NASA.
Performances
- 06 Mar, 2022: William Jewell College Choirs: Cardinalis at Village Presbyterian Church, Prairie Village, KS
- 10 Sep, 2021: Cornell University Chorus at Bailey Hall, Ithaca, NY
- 28 Feb, 2020: Gonzaga College Concert Choir at Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, Spokane WA
- 05 May, 2019: Melbourne Women's Choir at Montsalvat, Melbourne, Australia
- 26 Apr, 2018: McNeese State University Women's Ensemble at Tritico Theatre, Lake Charles, LA
- 20 Apr, 2018: McNeese State University Women's Ensemble at First United Methodist Church, Lake Charles, LA
- 31 Jan, 2016: Volti Choral Institute at CYO Retreat Center, Occidental, CA
- 27 Mar, 2015: Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir at First Congregational Church of Berkeley
- 01 Feb, 2015: Volti Choral Institute at CYO Retreat Center, Occidental, CA
- 04 Oct, 2014: San Francisco School of the Arts at San Francisco School of the Arts, San Francisco, CA