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The Human Spirit Choral Series
Ivo Antognini
Dream Land
Mixed Choir
(SATB)
Swiss composer Ivo Antognini (b. 1963) has been
described as „an important new voice“ by The
American Organist Magazine, the most widelyread journal devoted to organ and choral music
in the world.
His choral works have won awards in many national and international choral composition events
and are performed all over the world by first-rate
choirs. Antognini writes music for choirs of all levels and has a distinctive personal style.
He is the composer-in-residence of the world-class children‘s choir Coro
Calicantus.
In July 2012, Antognini has been invited by the American Choral Directors
Association to present his choral music on the occasion of the 7th World
Choir Games in Cincinnati OH, USA, where he was one of the adjudicators.
He serves as professor of ear training and piano at the Conservatorio della
Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (Switzerland).
His choral pieces are published by Alliance Music Inc. (USA), De Haske Hal Leonard, Annie Bank (Netherlands), Porfiri & Horváth Publishers
(Germany) and others.
Ivo Antognini lives in Aranno, a little village in Switzerland, with his wife
and his two children.
Performance Notes
For medium-advanced choirs, Ivo Antognini‘s Dreamland is a harmonically lush setting of Christina Rossetti‘s evocative text.
The composer weaves a simple, yet poignant, melodic figure through a
tapestry of jazz-influenced chords and tone clusters.
The piece sets the text remarkably well, carefully painting each word, and
arriving at a glorious climax on the phrase „rest...till time shall cease.“
The conclusion of the piece is tender, introspective, with the text „perfect
peace.“
For SATB divisi, this piece provides a charming and thoughtful addition
to a choral program.
Dr. Andrew Crane, Director of Choral Activities, East Carolina University,
USA
DREAM LAND
by Christina Rossetti (1840 - 1894)
Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are
Her pleasant lot.
She left the rosy morn,
She left the fields of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn
And water springs.
Through sleep, as through a veil,
She sees the sky look pale,
And hears the nightingale
That sadly sings.
Rest, rest, a perfect rest
Shed over brow and breast;
Her face is toward the west,
The purple land.
She cannot see the grain
Ripening on hill and plain;
She cannot feel the rain
Upon her hand.
Rest, rest, for evermore
Upon a mossy shore;
Rest, rest at the heart‘s core
Till time shall cease:
Sleep that no pain shall wake;
Night that no morn shall break
Till joy shall overtake
Her perfect peace.
Dedicated to Andrew Crane and East Carolina University Chamber Singers - USA
dedicated to Andrew Crane and East Carolina Chamber Singers - USA
Dream Land
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