Stars

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Commissioned By

SongFest, for Joanna Percy and Hannah Baker

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First Performance

June 2023

 

Ensemble

Voice and Piano

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Duration

2 minutes

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Stars by Sara Teasdale

Alone in the night

On a dark hill

With pines around me

Spicy and still,

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And a heaven full of stars

Over my head

White and topaz

And misty red;

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Myriads with beating 

Hearts of fire

The aeons

Cannot vex or tire;

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Up the dome of heaven

Like a great hill

I watch them marching

Stately and still

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And I know that I

Am honored to be

Witness

Of so much majesty.