Carefree Endlessly

2023. SATB with string quartet / 5 min

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The contemporary poems Carefree Endlessly and Love Eternal by Gary W. Burns exude inner peace and beauty.

The setting begins with a long quiet introduction that ebbs into a light waving breeze with the strings. The piece starts to move with the robins hurrying about the yard, and closes with the choir floating above determined moving strings with a repetitive chant of “love eternal” over lovely chord changes.

The strings provide ample leading for the voices throughout.

Poetry of Gary W. Burns provided courtesy of Turning Corner Books.

Demo vocals recorded by Hector Munoz via fiverr.com.

Text from Carefree Endlessly and Love Eternal

 

Carefree Endlessly

O these days of

The blue-sky-breeze,

Clouds that please,

Butterflies

Sailing carefree

On greenery

And life

Filled to bream

With beauty.

Ah

Carefree

Endlessly . . .

Love Eternal

How wonderful the spring

In which we watched

The early tulips bloom

And the robins

Hurry about the yard

As a late snow

Came down:

Love eternal.