The Snow Blossoms (SSA) | Rachel Devore Fogarty | MusicSpoke

Music by Rachel DeVore Fogarty

The Snow-Blossoms SSA with harp

Text by Ashton Clark Smith

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ABOUT THE COMPOSER Rachel DeVore Fogarty's works have been commissioned, awarded and performed by organizations in the U.S. and internationally, including ACDA, KMEA, IAWM, the Bryan Symphony, the Oak Ridge Symphony, St. Olaf's College, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, SACRA/PROFANA, Oklahoma State University, University of Kentucky, Conundrum, Tapestry Singers, Muse (Cincinnati Women's Ensemble), the Young New Yorkers' Chorus, the Concert Chorale of Nashville, the Six Degree Singers, the Festival Singers of Atlanta, the Capital Hearings and VocalEssence.

Her works have been chosen for inclusion in Vox Reflexa's New Millenium Composers project, the Cro Patria Choir Festival and in the London Contemporary Church Music Festival.

The Snow-Blossoms

But yestereve the winter trees Reared leafless, blackly bare, Their twigs and branches poignant-marked Upon the sunset-flare.

White-petaled, opens now the dawn, And in its pallid glow, Revealed, each leaf-lorn, barren tree Stands white with flowers of snow.

Ashton Clark Smith (1893-1961) from The Star Treader, and other poems, 1912

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The Snow-Blossoms For Michael Kerschner and the Young New Yorkers' Chorus Women's Ensemble

Ashton Clark Smith (1893-1961) q = 80

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*harmonics played where they sound ©2017 Rachel DeVore Fogarty www.racheldevorefogarty.com

Text from The Star Treader, and other poems, 1912

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6

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The Snow-Blossoms

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The Snow-Blossoms

8

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51

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˙

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