When Music Sounds
Choral/piano score
PEL2089-Choir and Piano
A WORK FOR SATB CHOIR AND PIANO WITH OPTIONAL ORGAN
Commissioned by the Plainville Choral Society, Plainville, CT in honor of Peter and MaryJane Peluso for over forty years of service as director and accompanist, respectively.
Notes
Commissioned by the Plainville Choral Society, Plainville, CT in honor of Peter and MaryJane Peluso for over forty years of service as director and accompanist, respectively.
Texts
When Music Sounds
Words: Walter de la Mare (1873 - 1958)
Music: Paul Halley (1952-)
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know,
And all her lovely things even lovelier grow;
Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees
Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies.
When music sounds, out of the water rise
Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes,
Rapt in strange dreams burns each enchanted face,
With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place.
When music sounds, all that I was I am
Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came;
And from Time's woods break into distant song
The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.
