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Nicholas Wright

i carry your heart with me E. E. Cummings for SATB a cappella Chorus "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in".

Copyright © 1952, 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage.

Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

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The Composer: Nicholas Wright (b. 1991) Nicholas (Nick) Wright regularly contributes to works of vocal and instrumental music as an arranger, composer, orchestrator, adjudicator, and clinician. His award-winning arrangements and compositions have been performed in a variety of venues including Carnegie Hall in New York; the World Expo in Shanghai, China; India’s most sacred performance space, Kalakshetra. Nick currently lives in Cincinnati, OH where he works as a composer and arranger. Since 2008 he has written for scholastic, semi-professional, and professional ensembles around the world.

Performance notes from the composer “i carry your heart with me” is one of the best known love poems by E. E. Cummings. With its sincere yet lighthearted tone, “i carry your heart with me” explores what it feels like to feel deeply in love with another person. Written as a gift to the woman that would eventually become my wife, this piece received its premiere on April 2, 2016 with the Cherry Hill East High School Singers (Laurie Lausi, director).

The Poem: i carry your heart with me

By E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

Nicholas Wright March 2016

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i carry your heart with me for SATB a cappella Chorus NICHOLAS WRIGHT

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