SATB, Children’s Choir, oboe, piano

Commissioned by the Highland Park High School Fine Arts Department for the 2014 Highlander Festival Choral Concert in recognition of HPISD’s Centennial Celebration.

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We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

—Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844-1881)