The Wind in the Wheat

SATB

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Voicing/instrumentation: SATB
Composer: Sam Kauffman
Lyricist/text source: Jessamine Slaughter Burgum
Language: English
Duration: 3:15
Year: 2025

Co-winner of the 2025 Sonus Chamber Choir Voices of the Prairie” composition competition

In this poem, the poet personifies the prairie wind and a field of wheat as two partners in a dance. The music has contrasting sections for each of them. The sopranos and altos get to imitate the ever-flowing, whistling, unpredictable wind.

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