A Winter Day
SATB, solo cello, & piano
This five-movement work celebrates the long Canadian winter, setting texts by Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of 'Anne of Green Gables' fame), and Melville Cane. Each movement depicts a different time of day, beginning with the cold darkness before dawn ('Timid Star') and concluding with the evening turning into dusk and then darkness ('Snow Toward Evening'). The music conjures up vivid images of a cold and crisp winter, and of swirling, dancing snowflakes.
1. Timid Star
2. A Winter Dawn
3. Into Morning
4. A Winter Day
5. Snow Toward Evening
Performed by Kantorei, Denver, Colorado
Joel Rinsema, Managing Artistic Director