Two Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses"
For SA Voices with Piano and Opt. Flute
Words by Robert Louis Stevenson
Music by Patti Drennan
These musical settings of two Robert Louis Stevenson poems from A Child's Garden of Verses paint a picture of the imaginative life of a child. Drennan plays between major and minor keys and creates tone paintings throughout her second setting, The Wind, Fantastic for teaching text stress and lyricism, this set of two can be performed together or individually, depending on the needs of the ensemble.