One Moment

• written for Mixed Choir, Soprano Soloist, and Piano;

4’ 30”

​( 2018, rev. 2019 )

Interim by Lola Ridge is in the Public Domain.

Program Note

One Moment seeks to observe the world completely frozen in time, allowing us to admire the parts of life that we often overlook: things that are beautiful, peaceful, and often left unmentioned. Lola Ridge’s poem, Interim, describes a conversation between the wind and the corn it often blows by. The two cheerfully wait for a bird to resume its flight amongst the stars in the sky, a moment of action about to unfold but left stationary; it is beautifully captured by time so we may finally acknowledge it.