To Make A Prairie (Versions for Voice and Orchestra and Voice and Piano) | Peter Askim

To Make A Prairie

Audio Recording (Orchestral Version)

Audio Recording (Piano Version)

Instrumentation: Voice and Chamber Orchestra (2 (2nd dbl. picc.).2.2.2/2.1.1.0./2 per./Harp/Piano/Strings) or Voice and Piano

Duration: 7′

Text:

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,

One clover, and a bee.

And revery.

The revery alone will do,

If bees are few.

-Emily Dickinson (1830 –1886)

 

Commissioned by Alisa Pearson and Kate Boyd

Orchestral Version dedicated to Andrea Moore

Request Info/Perusal Score/Parts: peter@peteraskim.com

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