The Mending Song
(unison treble voices, piano, opt. clarinet) 1'45"
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The melody weaves in and out, up and down, as the old mending woman works to keep the world stitched together.
Listen (mp3, 2.1 MB; 1996 Minnesota ACDA Elementary Honors Choir, Cora Scholz conducting)
Composer's Notes:
This is part of a set of four musical settings of wonderful texts by Arnold Lobel from his book Whiskers and Rhymes. I was commissioned to write them for the 1996-97 ACDA Minnesota Elementary Honors Choir, and they have since been published as separate octavos by Shawnee Press/Mark Foster Music. See also Four From "Whiskers and Rhymes".