ELIZABETH KNUDSON

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Elizabeth Knudson is an internationally award-winning Canadian composer (based in Vancouver, British Columbia), and an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Music from Simon Fraser University, and a Masters degree in Composition from the University of British Columbia. Her works have been performed in over a dozen countries around the world. Elizabeth enjoys composing for full orchestra, various chamber ensembles, world music ensembles, electroacoustic media, choir and voice, and also working collaboratively with dance, film, and theatre. Outside of composing, she is a freelance cellist and music instructor.

Vagabond Song

by Elizabeth Knudson

SATB a cappella –  CP 2984   – duration 3:15

Vagabond Song was based upon a poem of the same name by Canadian maritime poet, Bliss Carman. It is a celebration of the vibrant colours and free-spirited feeling that the autumn season can evoke:

“There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood.
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.