A Time to Blossom
by Meira Warshauer

flute, cello, piano
10 min.

Commissioned by the University of South Carolina

A Time to Blossom (1990) sets the poetry of three women from divergent times and traditions who express the inter-connectedness and holiness of all of life. For Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess, the “verdant sprout” is an inner awakening which “bud(s) forth” in each of us. Emily Dickinson, the 19th century New England recluse, describes the inner spirit as “a little brook” which flows through our hearts and sustains our lives. Hannah Senesh, the Israeli pioneer and martyr of World War II, evokes the grand forces of nature“the sand and the sea, the crash of the heavens” which have meaning because of the “prayer of the heart.” Using imagery of natural world, these three songs proclaim Divine Unity at all levels of being.

Meira Warshauer, 1990

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