DUENDE
(Spanish) The mysterious power a work of art has to deeply move a person.
SSAA, floor toms
Commissioned by Cherry Creek High School Girls’ 21, Adam Cave, conductor
Secular
Choral score
$1.60 per copy (you are buying a digital license)
Text:
The sky
looks like it is fire
the lake, silver
and I wonder
what my skin tastes like
after seeing something
like this.
For surely this sky falls, sinks
beneath my skin
just as the cold does, just
as the snow. Just as the moon
does, when it is waning,
just as the clouds do
when they can’t help but break.
Some moments I am nothing more
than driftwood, fox prints, flight.
- Julia Klatt Singer.
- Used with permission.