Blossoms Once Again
Voicing: SSA (minimal divisi)
Accompaniment: Piano or String Quartet (Both options included in purchase as separate scores)
Length: 5:00
Score Video: https://youtu.be/fGgPI8Tzm-A Audio recording of the world premiere by the University of Redlands Vocal Chamber Music Ensemble, 2023.
Global Voices Series: The text of Blossoms Once Again is the poem, Fire Flowers, by Emily Pauline Johnson. Hailing from First Nations Canada, Johnson brings an Indigenous perspective to the concept of forest fires.
Historic Voices Series: The poet, Emily Pauline Johnson, was born in Canada in 1861. From her time growing up the First Nations Mohawk tribe, to traveling Canada, the US, and the UK as a poet and performer, she blazed a trail as a mixed-race Indigenous woman in the 20th and 21st centuries. She spent the second half of her life in Vancouver, B.C., eventually authoring the book, Legends of Vancouver, with a monument to her legendary status at Stanley Park.
Voicing: SSA (minimal divisi)
Accompaniment: Piano or String Quartet (Both options included in purchase as separate scores)
Length: 5:00
Score Video: https://youtu.be/fGgPI8Tzm-A Audio recording of the world premiere by the University of Redlands Vocal Chamber Music Ensemble, 2023.
Global Voices Series: The text of Blossoms Once Again is the poem, Fire Flowers, by Emily Pauline Johnson. Hailing from First Nations Canada, Johnson brings an Indigenous perspective to the concept of forest fires.
Historic Voices Series: The poet, Emily Pauline Johnson, was born in Canada in 1861. From her time growing up the First Nations Mohawk tribe, to traveling Canada, the US, and the UK as a poet and performer, she blazed a trail as a mixed-race Indigenous woman in the 20th and 21st centuries. She spent the second half of her life in Vancouver, B.C., eventually authoring the book, Legends of Vancouver, with a monument to her legendary status at Stanley Park.
Voicing: SSA (minimal divisi)
Accompaniment: Piano or String Quartet (Both options included in purchase as separate scores)
Length: 5:00
Score Video: https://youtu.be/fGgPI8Tzm-A Audio recording of the world premiere by the University of Redlands Vocal Chamber Music Ensemble, 2023.
Global Voices Series: The text of Blossoms Once Again is the poem, Fire Flowers, by Emily Pauline Johnson. Hailing from First Nations Canada, Johnson brings an Indigenous perspective to the concept of forest fires.
Historic Voices Series: The poet, Emily Pauline Johnson, was born in Canada in 1861. From her time growing up the First Nations Mohawk tribe, to traveling Canada, the US, and the UK as a poet and performer, she blazed a trail as a mixed-race Indigenous woman in the 20th and 21st centuries. She spent the second half of her life in Vancouver, B.C., eventually authoring the book, Legends of Vancouver, with a monument to her legendary status at Stanley Park.