There Will Come Soft Rains

Description

Audio

Duration

3 min.

Instrumentation

Voice

Text

Sara Teasdale : There Will Soft Rains

Program Notes

There Will Come Soft Rains is a setting of the Sarah Teasdale poem of the same name. The poem presents an eerily tranquil vision of a post-apocalyptic world where nature regains control. The free rhythms of the piece are designed to evoke a slightly unbalanced speech-like feel, while the slippery chromaticism underscores the unsettling mood of the text.