On a Piece of Tapestry

A woven tapestry laid on the ground

SKU: RP021

Price: $2.00

Length: 4'00"

Instrumentation: SATB choir

Delivery: PDF score will be delivered via email within a few days

Written for Aliro Voices under the direction of Samuel Kjellberg, On a Piece of Tapestry was written in April of 2013, 150 years after the birth of George Santayana. The text is a sonnet of the same name by Santayana.

Hold high the woof, dear friends, that we may see

The cunning mixture of its colours rare.

Nothing in nature purposely is fair,—

Her beauties in their freedom disagree;

But here all vivid dyes that garish be,

To that tint mellowed which the sense will bear,

Glow, and not wound the eye that, resting there,

Lingers to feed its gentle ecstacy.

Crimson and purple and all hues of wine,

Saffron and russet, brown and sober green

Are rich the shadowy depths of blue between;

While silver threads with golden intertwine,

To catch the glimmer of a fickle sheen,—

All the long labour of some captive queen.

Recording of On a Piece of Tapestry by Aliro Voices