Description
“This Sky Falls” is a ballad with the groove of flight achieved, basking in the freedom of a glorious, sustained glide through the sky and the way the magnificent vista alights within our bodies and under our skin.
Performed by Jennifer Lucy Cook
Text
The sky
looks like it is fire
the lake, silver
and I wonder
what my skin tastes like
after seeing something
like this.
For surely
this sky falls, sinks
beneath my skin
just as the cold does, just
as the snow. Just as the moon
does, when it is waning,
just as the clouds do
when they can’t help but break.
Some moments I am nothing more
than driftwood, fox prints, flight.
– Julia Klatt Singer
Composer Notes
“This Sky Falls” is the third and final movement of a work called Flight, commissioned by Phil Hettema for Vox Femina’s 20th Anniversary season. It was originally scored for SSA choir, flute, cello, percussion, and piano.
– Jocelyn Hagen
About the Practice Tracks
The practice tracks are designed for the benefit of distant / isolated singing in your personal spaces, and to encourage independent learning. These audio tracks work best with earphones / headphones on. The tracks are professionally mixed so singers are ensured high quality audio recordings to support their learning!
Important licensing & purchasing terms: The purchase of this resource allows your choral organization to distribute it to your singers and staff for their own learning at any time, but not to be duplicated, edited in any way, and/or shared beyond the organization.
