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The Cloths of Heaven

For Large Double Chorus
(SSAATTBB/SSAATTBB)
with Optional Handchimes
or Handbells

duration 3½'


Commissioned by: The University of Utah Singers,
Brady R. Allred, Conductor

World Premiere: 2008, Salt Lake City

Play Audio Excerpt
The University of Utah Singers,
Brady R. Allred, Conductor (live recording)
(1.11 Mb mp3)


First Page of Score

 





 

 
Text:
 
 

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

    W.B. Yeats (1865–1939), from The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899)