Performance noteSuitable for university and advanced community and high school choirs.
When I became acquainted with Carl Sandburg’s “Prairie,” the message of letting the past be the past and focusing on the new day and the sky of tomorrows ahead really resonated with me. I selected several passages from the poem that seemed best suited to express that message in a four-to-five-minute choral piece, then set out to find the right musical setting. The result is A Sky of Tomorrows.
Lyrics
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Yesterday is a wind gone down.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes;
a sun dropped in the west.
In the morning hours, in the dawn,
The sun puts out the stars of the sky.
And at sundown
I will hanker after nothing so much as one more sunrise,
One more sunrise!
Cry hallelujah to the streaks of daylight;
Shout and sing to the morning sun.
I tell you there is nothing in the world
only an ocean of tomorrows;
a sky of tomorrows.
Compiled by Lane Johnson from excerpts from Carl Sandburg's "Prairie"
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