Make Much of Time
a Cantata for Soprano, Tenor, Chorus and Orchestra
1989
27 minutes
Poetry:Robert Herrick, William Shakespeare, and Henry Wadworth Longfellow
Voices: soprano, baritone, SATB chorus
Orchestra: 2+pic.2+Ehn.2+bcl.2+cbn/4.3.3.1/ timp.2 perc (SD, TD, BD, tamb, cym)/hp.pf/strings
Commission: Flagstaff Symphony Association
Premiere: Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
Harold Weller, Conductor
Nan Nall, soprano, Warren Hoffer, tenor
Chorale Union, Jo-Michael Scheibe, director
April 29, 1987, Flagstaff, Arizona
Movements: 1. Music, thou queen of heaven
2. O mistress mine
3. Gather ye rosebuds
4. Fair daffodils
5. The tide rises, the tide falls
6. Corinna's going a Maying