SKU: A0.1000875

SSAA with piano accompaniment (1999 rev. 2020) ca. 3’
e.e. cummings, Text.
Commissioned by the Piedmont Choirs, for use in the International Choral Olympics in Linz, Austria, July, 2000.
The MP3 recording is of the original composition. A handful of small tweaks were recently made, all of which simplify the performance challenges.

Text:

who knows if the moon’s
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky-filled with pretty people?
(and if you and I should

get into it, if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited, where

always
it’s
Spring)and everyone’s
In love and flowers pick themselves