The Road Not Taken (for Chorus and Piano) by Dale Victorine

The Road Not Taken for Chorus with Piano, Opus 77 (Written in 2001) Poem by Robert Frost. This is a slideshow I've done to go with a performance of one of my compositions. This choral work is performed by the San Jose Symphonic Choir, and directed by Leroy Kromm.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost

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[LIPSTICKSJUNGLE]

we sang this in 1980 for our class graduation , the choir, and i have loved it every so much since that time , and always will , someday , many years from now , this will be a poem at my own end played for all to know i told the road less traveled by , callie in tenn

[dvic56]

I'm glad you like my version of The Road Not Taken. You probably sang the Randall Thompson version in 1980. I wrote my version in 2001.

[irlydntgveasht]

the future has two paths

[rmills764]

Congrats to you, my dear frend. I remeber when you composed this,and now a portion of your dreams are coming to pass. God bless you and keep up the good work. Inspiring!!!

[ssrools14]

this is addicting to listen too <3 love it, so beautiful

[Daddysgurl1997]

This is Beautiful my choral program issanf it at MPA we won with Straight Superiors !(:

[MSGOODBAR]

this is beautiful

[BillSalem]

Very beautiful melody. Lovely harmony. Extremely well rendered by the choir. The transposition between the second and third stanzas works well and refreshes the ear--- But...and forgive, please, if this seems too much like carping, but I wish that the transposition between the third and fourth were less by-the-book, perfunctory. It is exactly there that the ear needs to hear something more surprising. Perhaps a more remote key.

[Mctaggart6412]

we sang this at my graduation in '08. I was in the choir as a tenor and at the end you could have heard a pin drop.

[yoursweetestdesire]

This song is truly amazing! My choir is singing this for graduation and it's just so fitting to the moment in time we're approaching.

[pctputertutor]

Beautiful! My daughter's high school choir sang this at their concert recently. It's my favorite poem, so it was a double blessing for me to hear it.