SKU: A0.939403

 American lyric poet Sara Trevor Teasdale (1884-1933) was the first woman and the first poet to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 collection entitled Love Songs. Teasdale was roundly praised for her lyric mastery and romantic subjects. Her poems most often take on the first person role of their female narrators and protagonists.

Teasdale’s first poem was published in 1907. Later that year she published her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, written mainly for the Italian actress Eleonora Duse. In 1911 her second collection Helen of Troy and Other Poems received high praise from critics. Her third collection, Rivers to the Sea from 1915 was and remains a best seller and has been reprinted several times. The three poems used here, Joy, The Answer, and .To Joy all date from 1915. These three poems were also included in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Love Songs.

Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 8, 1884. She was a sickly child, so much so that she was home schooled. As a young woman she had many suitors, including the poet Vachel Lindsay, who thought he could never provide for her. She eventually married businessman Ernst Filsinger, a great admirer of her poems. The couple relocated to New York City.

Filsinger’s constant business travel left Teasdale very lonely and depressed. She eventually relocated to another state so she could quickly divorce him. Filsinger was shocked. Teasdale took up again with Vachel Lindsay, who has himself married and had children. Lindsay committed suicide in 1931 and Teasdale followed likewise two years later. She is interred at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

SKU: BJ.1278

8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Cecilia Damstrom (b. 1988) is a Finland-Swedish composer and pianist with a rich production of music for choir and for chamber ensembles. Her piece for male voices, At Teasdale's, gives in three short, concentrated movements life to the American poet Sara Teasdale's beautiful poems about the sea, the night and love: At Sea, At Night and At Midnight.

Cecilia Damstrom's At Teasdele's is the winner of the 1st prize in Linkopings Studentsangare Composition Award 2016: For an artistic and through-composed suite in three movements that congenially interprets and conveys Sara Teasdale's exquisite and expressive lyrics. The composer utilises the male choir's richness and variety of possibilities, with a substantial feeling for the male voice conditions. With its personal musical language At Teasdale's has a great opportunity to appeal to both singers, and the audience..

SKU: A0.989241

Sara Teasdale's poem, A Christmas Carol, is a tender, poignant - but not sentimental - text.  The music  relates to the poem in the spirit of the Christmas spirit. This is a piece that is new-to-the-audience,  and a lovely addition to a Christmas program or religious service.  There is an accompanied version of the work as well as this acapella setting.