04/29/07, the Haverford and Bryn Mawr College Choruses, Thomas Lloyd Conductor
02/09/09, Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and Conductor's Orchestra, John Leonard, conductor
This work was commissioned in celebration of the 200 Year Anniversary of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, America's oldest town/gown organization. Eight Frost poems (in the public domain) are arranged into four movements, each embodying universal themes, in a structurally dramatic arch. Movements I and IV are about art and the creative process. The second movement has to do with the nature of time and the ephemeral. The third movement portrays the struggle of the human spirit through the confrontation of opposites. The final movement questions what the art of the future should be.
