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Matthew Weisher: Nothing Gold Can Stay - CCSU University Singers. 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' for SATB Choir, divisi Music: Matthew Weisher (born 1991) Text: Robert Frost (1874-1963) in 'New Hampshire' (…More
Matthew Weisher: Nothing Gold Can Stay - CCSU University Singers.
'Nothing Gold Can Stay' for SATB Choir, divisi Music: Matthew Weisher (born 1991) Text: Robert Frost (1874-1963) in 'New Hampshire' (1923) ___ The CCSU University Singers (director: Dr. Pamela Perry), conducted by Matthew Weisher (2013) Video by Eser (Sotto Voce aka civileso) "A few months before the end of my senior year of college, I was asked to write a piece in honor of the retirement of Dr. Pamela Perry--a mentor, teacher, friend and the director of the CCSU University Singers, a group that I had been a member of for four years and absolutely loved. The resulting piece is what you are hearing now, a short setting of Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Once I heard the poem, I knew it was perfect for the occasion, as "gold" is what Dr. Perry truly was. I wrote the entire piece in a matter of hours, and presented it--in secret--to my group that same day to rehearse privately without Dr. Perry's knowledge. A few …More