Refuge

Composer Elaine Hagenberg gives us a new treble voicing of her mixed voiced setting of this moving piece. A poem by Sara Teasdale is the inspiration for this minor-key setting, which relies heavily on the piano and cello accompaniment to convey the deeply spiritual feeling of the text. "For with my singing I can make a refuge for my spirit's sake, a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality."