featuring Elektra Women’s Choir with chamber instruments: director – Morna Edmundson
accompaniment options – piano only or marimba
LYRICS
Should green-as-moss be mixed with
  blue-of-steel be mixed with gleam-of gold
  you’d still fall short by far of the ̶
Tar-bright oil-slick sheen and
  gloss of starling wing.
And if you sampled sneaker-squeaks
  and car-alarms and phone ringtones
you’d still come nowhere near the ̶
you’d still come nowhere near the ̶
Rooftop riprap street-smart
  hip-hop of starling song.
Let shade clasp coal clasp pitch
  clasp storm clasp witch,
they’d still be pale beside the ̶
they’d still be pale beside the ̶
In-the-dead-of-night-black, cave-black,
  head-cocked, fight-back gleam of starling eye.
Northern lights teaching shoaling fish teaching
  swarming flies teaching clouding ink
would never learn the ̶
would never learn the ̶
Ghostly swirling surging whirling melting
  murmuration of starling flock.
by Robert Macfarlane
“Kingfisher” image by Jackie Morris
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					SSAA with piano – CP 2204
				
					SSAA with piano PDF – CP 2204 PDF
				
					Marimba parts
				
concerned about the minimum order of 12 copies? no worries – please click here
View the entire book of 20 movements here (and listen to the stellar concert in order)
Cypress makes rehearsal tracks for choirs – here is a demo
					