Flight (Original Composition)

This is my first attempt at choral work--as premiered by the Chaska High School Choir, under the direction of Mrs. Jane Smith.

Text: Also a poem of my own, originally entitled "Flight" as well.

Morning dawn bids winter come,
awaits its breath with frosted tongue.
Between sheets and solemn stares,
into the thick of air,
Night falls and limbs hang bleak.
Bleak.
Swirling in an ocean of stillness.
Swimming, in the stillness sweet.
Unfurling rush and snow-capped peak
give way to silence at her feet.
Dark dovetails with failing light.
Wingless flock--stripped bare of flight.
Fluttering (--the triplets--) -- Fall, fall.
Silence remains the only rest.
All stripped bare of flight.
Flight. (Flut-ter-ing-Flut-ter-ing Flight)

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[poklar]

This is wonderful! And you say this is your first attempt? How long have you studied music?

[joeldpeterson]

@poklar Thank you so much! Ha, well when I wrote this just whatever I had in middle and high school...including a couple years of piano and choir, but that's it.

[poklar]

@joeldpeterson That's cool! How often do you compose? Do you plan to make anymore choral pieces? Also, do you have any tips you're willing to share? Forgive my long-winded responses, but I plan to, at some point, create a few choral works of my own. Nothing fancy, mainly works based on certain excerpts of some songs I think deserve some creative interpretation (They Reminisce Over You by Pete Rock & CL Smooth and The Coolest by Lupe Fiasco). Are there any pointers you would be willing to give?

[trespasserfilms]

Man, I'm quite serious when I say that was incredible. Would there be any way that my school's advanced chorus could possibly acquire the rights to sing your piece?

[JKevinGrayvideos]

I enjoyed this piece...bravo to you and all fellow composers.

[celebrityality]

Simply Marvelous.