Lola Ridge Songs: Shadows over a cradle... (2015)
for SSAA choir | 00:02:30
by Melissa Dunphy | text by Lola Ridge
Other Arrangements
TTBB choirOriginal SSAA version commissioned for Ancora by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir (Robert Geary, director).
Related Works
Lola Ridge Songs (SSAA choir)
It's strange about stars... (SSAA choir)
It's strange about stars... (TTBB choir)
Different kinds of shadows (SSAA choir)
It isn't a dream... (SSAA choir)
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.)
Artwork by Aurelian Sandulescu.
Performances
- 16 Nov, 2019: Nazareth College Treble Choir at Glazer Music Performance Center, Rochester, NY
- 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
- 05 Mar, 2016: Acalanes High School Bella Voce at 2016 Northern California Golden State Choral Competition, CA
- 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, CA