The Baltimore Choral Arts Society commissioned Mallonée to write a piece celebrating their longtime music director, Tom Hall, who retired in 2017. The piece was premiered in March 2017 at the Kraushaar Auditorium in Towson, MD.
The Baltimore Choral Arts Society commissioned Mallonée to write a piece celebrating their longtime music director, Tom Hall, who retired in 2017. The piece was premiered in March 2017 at the Kraushaar Auditorium in Towson, MD.
Look For Us Again
The Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Leo Wanenchak, conducting
March 2017
Pencils
telling where the wind comes from
open a story.
Pencils
telling where the wind goes
end a story.
These eager pencils
come to a stop
…only…when the stars high over
come to a stop.
Out of cabalistic tomorrows
come cryptic babies calling life
a strong and a lovely thing.
I have seen neither these
nor the stars high over
come to a stop.
Neither these nor the sea horses
running with the clocks of the moon.
Nor even a shooting star
snatching a pencil of fire
writing a curve of gold and white.
Like you…I counted the shooting stars of a winter
night and my head was dizzy with all
of them calling one by one:
Look for us again.
—Carl Sandburg