Original upload date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 02:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:36:46 GMT
Score video of FIRE AND ICE, Greg Bartholomew's setting for mixed choir (SATB) of the poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963). Audio recording by Matt Curtis (Choral Tracks).
Published in December 1920 in
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Harper's Magazine and again in 1923 in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book New Hampshire, "Fire and Ice" is one of Robert Frost's most popular poems. Some have asserted that the poem is a compression of Dante's Inferno. In an anecdote he recounted in 1960, prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley claimed to have inspired Fire and Ice in an encounter with Frost a year before the poem was published. Frost asked Shapley how the world will end, and Shapley responded that either the sun will explode and incinerate the Earth, or the Earth will somehow escape this fate only to end up slowly freezing in deep space.
Sheet music for FIRE AND ICE is available from J.W. Pepper: https://www.jwpepper.com/11129789.item
For more information visit www.gregbartholomew.com/fireindex.html
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