Dance Steps
for a cappella SATB choir w/ divisi
by Sanford Dole
This delightful piece sets a whimsical poem by the American poet, Susan Kinsolving, about steps taken internationally to make the world a better place.
Sanford Dole’s Dance Steps has artistic merit…no one can doubt the artistic merit of Dole’s entertaining piece. I was not looking forward to enduring Susan Kinsolving’s absurdist text, printed in the program booklet, but Dole’s delightful and whimsical pacing and Clerestory’s spot-on delivery gave me a double take.
—Thomas Busse, San Francisco Classical Voice
SKU: SDE-004
Categories: Choral Music, Mixed Voices
Instrumentation: Choral
| Season or Event: | Autumn, General |
| Descriptive Tags: | Animals, Celebratory, Fun, Humorous, Light, Nature, Poetry, Silly |
| Difficulty: | Advanced Student, Advanced |
| Voicing: | SATB |
| Instrumentation: | A Cappella |
| Language: | English |
| Sacred or Secular: | Secular |
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