Nothing I like more than hearing my kids sing. They are so much more talented than I am, Charity sings with Sing Omaha woman's choir. There was also a girls choir and a master chorale which is a mixed group. Their spring concert was based on a theme of "Choral Canvases: Where Art and Music Meet." Each of the songs was related to a poem about nature. The concert was conducted by Dr. Matt Hill. He wrote the music to three of the poems, and had artwork commissioned based on the theme. These were "Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna Vincent Millay, "Kraken" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day" by William Shakespeare.
The Kraken
Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
These are a couple short excerpts from her spring concert.
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| By Bev Hill |
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| Dr. Jim Martin |
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| Anna Cheeswright |
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