Duet.live IL ACDA. by William V. Malpede

"Duet" poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Is it the wind of the dawn that I hear in the pine overhead?
No; but the voice of the deep as it hollows the cliffs of the land.
Is there a voice coming up with the voice of the deep from the strand,
One coming up with a Song in the flush of the glimmering red?
Love that is born of the deep coming up with the sun from the sea.
Love that can shape or can shatter a life till the life shall have fled?
Nay, let us welcome him, Love that can life up a life from the dead.
Keep him away from the lone little isle. Let us be, let us be.
Nay, let him make it his own, let him reign in it - he, it is he.
Love that is born of the deep coming up with the sun from the sea.

This piece is the winner of the 2019 Illinois ACDA Choral Composition Contest. A setting of the love poem from Alfred Lord Tennyson, it is a series of vocal duets which ponder from where comes the Voice of Love? Though Love's voice can shape or shatter a life, it can also life a life up from the dead. Romantic, moody, and not too difficult for school and community choruses. Available for purchase at https://www.musicspoke.com/downloads/duet/