Thomas Yonke received a Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition and a Graduate Certificate in Choral Composition from Missouri State University. While...
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Thomas Yonke
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About This Piece
This expressive setting of Robert Frost’s My November Guest blends lyrical phrasing and rich contemporary harmonies with a subtle jazz-inflected elegance. Artistic yet highly singable, it offers choirs a beautifully nuanced way to explore Frost’s quiet reflections on beauty, melancholy, and the changing seasons.
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- Voicing
- SATB
- Composer
- Thomas Yonke
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My sorrow, when she’s here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: She’s glad the birds are gone away, She’s glad her simple worsted grey Is silver now with clinging mist. The desolate, deserted trees, The faded earth, the heavy sky, The beauties she so truly sees, She thinks I have no eye for these, And vexes me for reason why. Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow, But it were vain to tell her so, And they are better for her praise. -Robert Frost, 1913