Stoke Fleming
For unaccompanied mixed choir - Duration: 3:30
Listen to the premiere performance of  Stoke Fleming
 Stoke Fleming is a small hamlet on the English Channel. The text for this work is a secular meditation on the rocks and the waves written by the composer during a weekend stay there in 1978. The music was completed in January 2000 and received a reading by the Gregg Smith Singers at the Adirondack Festival of American Music in July 2000.
Gonçalo Lourenço conducted the Chamber Singers of the College-Conservatory of Music in the world premiere performance of Stoke Fleming on March 11, 2010, in the Werner Recital Hall at the Corbett Center for the Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Stoke Fleming
You rugged stone
I am the crashing wave upon you
Caressing your bold form
I am the motion which surrounds you
while you hold firm
I roll upon you wash you and recoil
You accept my touch and watch me go
No
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I'm that crest there
Pounding myself on the open beach
Spreading over the sand
I run out from my salty keep
But fall back in again
I fall away from land away from air
I will sink out in and lose myself
There
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Performance History
Premiered March 11, 2010, by the Chamber Singers of the College-Conservatory of Music, Goncalo Lourenco conducting, Werner Recital Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio
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