THERE
WILL COME SOFT RAINS for Mixed Choir (2022)
Score
Joel Järventausta
THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS
for Mixed Choir (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB) (2022)
Duration: c. 8 min.
Score
Copyright © 2025 Edition Wilhelm Hansen A/S, Copenhagen
Music engraving in Sibelius
Publisher´s editor Katrine Gregersen Dal
Edition Wilhelm Hansen, A/S Bornholmsgade 1A 1266 København K Denmark
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There will come soft rains was commissioned by Helsinki Chamber Choir with the support of Teosto
The premiere was given by the Helsinki Chamber Choir, conducted by Nils Schweckendiek, in Ritarihuone, Helsinki, on 8 June 2022
Duration = ca. 8 minutes
There Will Come Soft Rains (1918)
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
- Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
Excerpt from O nobilissima viriditas
O nobilissima viriditas que radicas in sole….
- Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Programme notes
There will come soft rains sets the American poet Sara Teasdale’s poem of the same title. Teasdale’s poem sends a powerful message: nature will prevail, with or without humanity. A humbling thought At the end of my work, representing Teasdale’s poem’s spring awakening, the sopranos sing in canon an excerpt of Hildegard von Bingen’s (1098-1179) O nobilissima viriditas - a beautiful composition about the divinity of nature and greenness.
J. Järventausta
Text by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
There will come soft rains (1918)
q = 52
Joel Järventausta
There p dolce will come soft rains and the smelloftheground,
ling p - with their shimme - -ring sound;
ling p - with their shimme - -ring sound;