Touch
title | Touch
cost | 200
approximate length | 4:00
commission for | SSAA some divisi
style | Tender, loving, nurturing, tonal
reading by the poet | https://soundcloud.com/michael-bussewitz-quarm/touch-reading-by-the-poet-euan-tait
themes | Singing returns, music making as a bodily act, underlying power of tenderness, vulnerability
what you get | PDF of score; Live session with composer; pre-recorded panel video; monthly Zoom mixer for choir directors of project
score delivered | August 16, 2021
difficulty | Moderate
instruments | unaccompanied
lyricist | Euan Tait
advisors | Alison Litvack
to declare interest, go to | https://forms.gle/zWyAHFzM585xxHUZA
TO JOIN | https://consortio.io/mbqstudio/touch
Comparisons | Most Like this Style | “So it was I” https://soundcloud.com/michael-bussewitz-quarm/so-it-was-i-2019-bussewitz-quarm
Songs with this Lyricist | “So it was I”
Songs for this Voicing | “I’m Not Lost” https://soundcloud.com/michael-bussewitz-quarm/im-not-lost
lyrics |
TOUCH EUAN TAIT
Mother, I visited you
in my dreams. You,
angry angel, your robe
shifting off your shoulder.
“Don’t fuss me!” old power
and love, that raised me
from the ground
when I fell and bled.
And now, deep night
as we both sleep.
No give-up weakness
in the tender touch
I offer: replacing a strand
of bright hair,
blown free
in the wind,
caressing an old wound
on your hand, a break,
as it again began
to ache like fear.
But I am here,
And I reach you.
The night is flowing,
And I am here.
