Composer: Lorri FroggétDetailsFormat: Mixed Choir - 5 voices or moreVoicing: SSATBBAccompaniment: unaccompaniedNotation: standardPerformance Length: 5:30 Study Scores & Audio FilesStudy Score & Audio Order Printed ScoresOrder site / Alternate source of score: lorri.frogget@gmail.com Texts & TranslationsLanguage(s): EnglishText Source: Janine WanéeText: Oh Angel light, Oh Creature's eyes, In still surrender pierced our souls, We saw their languid fire blink, Your mother holding vigil watched them go... Where are they now, oh little one, Where the Bluebird called you home, Do they shine brightly in the night, And gaze on us from heaven’s dome, Or do they wait as earthen pools, Beneath the garden bed below, To rise as suns in the eyes of flowers, From seeds in broken ground we’ve sown, To shower petals on our path, And on a deep and tender wound, Unfurled each spring to push between, What lies within us dark and ruined. Programming AidsPerformance Difficulty: moderateSeasonal Usage: Memorial ServicesSpringFeast Day of St. Therese of LisieuxDescriptive Terms: childrenremembrancelullabylossflowersAllow Excerpts: Composition is a single movementComposer’s Notes: ”Flower Lullaby” is a choral work based on a poem and melody by Janine Wanée, my longtime friend. The original melody is heard in the first twelve bars and is organically developed throughout the balance of the work. Janine had spent some months as a nanny helping the Bogstad family care for their newborn triplets upon their arrival home from the hospital. One of the triplets, Theresa Michelle Bogstad (October 1, 2003 – February 18, 2005) tragically succumbed to Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis at 16 months. Unbeknownst to her parents when naming her, Terry was born on the Feast Day of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, known as “The Little Flower,” so at her memorial service, family and friends participated in a “Flower Offering” in her honor. Janine wrote the poem and her own melody which she originally sang as an unaccompanied solo at a fundraiser for medical research for the disease in Theresa’s memory. It was inspired to create a choral work based on her poem and melody as a token of her friendship and an expression of empathy for grief at the loss of a beloved young child. Additional InformationDate of Completion: July, 2013Date of First Performance: Saturday, May 21, 2016Premier Performance Data: Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble (Loren Pontén, cond), St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, WA
