The Wind in the Wheat
SATB
$2.00
Categories: Choir/Vocal Ensemble, SATB
Voicing/instrumentation: SATB
Composer: Sam Kauffman
Lyricist/text source: Jessamine Slaughter Burgum
Language: English
Duration: 3:15
Year: 2025
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.
A recording by Sonus Chamber Choir will be available in October 2026.