Ryan Main (b. 1984) is an award-winning composer, director, and clinician whose music for choirs and bands is performed at all levels worldwide. His...
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Ryan Main
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About This Piece
Commissioned for the 2018 Missouri Music Educators Association conference. This setting of Teasdale's timeless poetry is rich in text painting and music making opportunities that evoke both the simple imagery of her words, as well as the profound nature of her message.
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Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. -From “Barter”, by Sara Teasdale