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To Make A Prairie
Saxophone ensemble : narrator
(1 sopranino, 2 sopranos, 3 altos, 3 tenors, 2 baritones, 1 bass)
The narrator's part should be spoken by a female narrator, preferably in a
Massachusetts or New England accent.
Duration : 10 minutes 30 seconds
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First performance : Thursday, 19 May, 2011
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, ChicagoNorthwestern University Saxophone Ensemble
Frederick L. Hemke - conductor
This work is in three movements and is based on four poems by Emily Dickinson:
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,There came a Wind like a Bugle -
Winter under cultivation
The Bobolink is gone - the Rowdy of the meadow -
External links :
Northwestern University Saxophone Studio
Emily Dickinson Museum
Northwestern University Saxophone Ensemble, conductor Frederick Hempke, during the first performance of To Make A Prairie for narrator and saxophone ensemble, at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Chicago.
During the performance images of prairies were projected on to the sceen, which can be seen suspended at the back of the stage, above the ensemble.