Performed by PNHS Concert Treble Choir during the PNHS Winter Concert, 12/12/18
Composer/Conductor: Carter Datz
Soloist: Sarah Mitulski
Piano: Paul Cereghino
Text: Carter Datz, Maggie Hansen, Lenny McKoy, and Sophia Strathman
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This piece was created in a collaborative effort between myself and the students of Parkway North High School's Concert Treble Choir. After a discussion of what issues are important to them right now, multiple students brought their original poetry before the group. I took the words of Maggie Hansen, Lenny McKoy, and Sophia Strathman, and wove them together into a piece about moonflowers, a real trumpet-shaped plant that blooms at night. As these young women are facing many difficult issues and questions about their identity, their future, and their purpose, the moonflower seems to be a perfect metaphor for their response. Even when darkness surrounds them, they open up and sing in defiance.
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TEXT:
V1
I wish I could sing in the daylight
But I can never find the words
Every voice I hear gives me doubt
Am I good enough? Strong enough to be heard?
The thunder booms, the rain is pounding
Listen to the music instead
As fast as my heart, the beat is sounding
I don’t want this melody to stay in my head
Do you hear it? Can you hear it?
CHORUS
There is a moonflower
Growing in the garden of our hearts
Even though the darkness surrounds us
We will never, fall apart
What a bright light here, even in the night, yes it’s still shining
Hear our trumpets sound, underneath the starry silver lining
Moonflower, moonflower
V2
We may shrink in the sun
Our thorns may draw blood
But a beautiful flower
Is growing beneath the mud
The night will not crush us
We bloom in defiance and sing
We will cling fast to hope
No matter what this life will bring
Do you feel it? Can you feel it?
BRIDGE
Love will grow, love will grow…
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