PERUSALSCORE
Ask the Orange
Gala Flagello 2022 for SATB choir
Full score with piano reduction
PERUSALSCORE
Ask the Orange
for SATB choir
Full score with piano reduction
PERUSALSCORE
Gala Flagello 2022
Program Notes
Ask the Orange (2022) was written for the 2022 Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival and School. The piece explores the pairing of senses, actions, objects, and atmospheres that ordinarily—syntactically or physically—would not go together. These pairings evoke the many colors present in the poetry while questioning our day-to-day division of the five senses and the dynamic ways in which music might reconnect them. Many thanks to the Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute for bringing Ask the Orange to life.
Instrumentation
SATB choir
Duration: 5 minutes
First printing, March 2025
Copyright ©20122Gala Flagello. All Rights Reserved.
Program Note Copyright ©2022 Gala Flagello. All Rights Reserved
Published by Just a Theory Press | www.justatheorypress.com
Text | Ask the Orange by Gala
I hear the blue today. I feel the sound of it all over me— The smell of green
An angular reprieve from turquoise lemon
Sweet with silent chatter, Water purple with pine matter.
After pink, I listen
To the feel of scarlet memory
Ablaze with pungent sighs And misty melody. Envelope me
Without regret for moonlit fleeting density; Surround magenta callings; Fall on windswept red, On whispered white, On darkening delight.
I might hear blue today
But yesterday was verdant And tomorrow seems quite yellow. I can hear the liquid night While brushing past it in the floral rain. I ask the orange to remain.
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