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Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore
Butterfly Lullaby (SATB)
The names of real butterflies are crafted into a hauntingly beautiful lullaby.
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Butterfly Lullaby
SATB, cello, vibraphone (or piano)
Poet Annie Finch’s text for “Butterfly Lullaby” includes the beautifully evocative names of real butterflies—”wild indigo duskywing,” “southern cloudywing”— in a haunting lullaby for one, butterfly or child, who will inevitably fly away.
“Butterfly Lullaby” (as Winged Lullaby) was a winner of the Gregg Smith Choral Composition Contest and was premiered by the Syracuse University Concert Choir, conducted by Elisa Dekaney.
Text
My wild indigo dusky wing
my mottled, broad-wing skipper,
a sleepy, dreamy dusty wing,
flying through my night.
My northern, southern, cloudy wing,
my spring azure, my crescent pearl,
a silver-spotted, sweet question mark,
sleeping in my sky.
A tiger swallowtail, harvester,
moving through my hours,
an eyed brown in the redwing dark,
wrapped softly in my words.
— Annie Finch
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