Upon a Wheel of Cloud
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Composer: Anne Neikirk
Duration: 6:45
Scoring: mixed choir (SATB), piano, and soloist
Materials: choral score (8.5 x 11)
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Duration: 6:45
Scoring: mixed choir (SATB), piano, and soloist
Materials: choral score (8.5 x 11)
For bulk orders of choral music or print licensing, please Contact Us for more information.
Program Note
Upon a Wheel of Cloud was written for the Temple University Concert Choir under the direction of Paul Rardin. The text is the following poem by Emily Dickenson, describing an incoming and outgoing rainstorm.
— Anne Neikirk
— Anne Neikirk
Like Rain it sounded till it curved
And then I knew ‘twas Wind --
It walked as wet as any Wave
But swept as dry as sand --
When it had pushed itself away
To some remotest Plain
A coming as of Hosts was heard
That was indeed the Rain --
It filled the Wells, it pleased the Pools
It warbled in the Road --
It pulled the spigot from the Hills
And let the Floods abroad --
It loosened acres, lifted seas
The sites of Centres stirred
Then like Elijah rode away
Upon a Wheel of Cloud.
— Emily Dickenson
And then I knew ‘twas Wind --
It walked as wet as any Wave
But swept as dry as sand --
When it had pushed itself away
To some remotest Plain
A coming as of Hosts was heard
That was indeed the Rain --
It filled the Wells, it pleased the Pools
It warbled in the Road --
It pulled the spigot from the Hills
And let the Floods abroad --
It loosened acres, lifted seas
The sites of Centres stirred
Then like Elijah rode away
Upon a Wheel of Cloud.
— Emily Dickenson
Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.