Songs of Home, March 2007
Under the direction of Dr. Anne J. Matlack
Harmonium Choral Society
Grace Episcopal Church, Madison, New Jersey
Solo: Marillyn Kitchell, Max Krieger
Stephen Hatfield, a native of Canada’s Pacific Coast, has lived most of his life in the
rain forests of Vancouver Island. Hatfield is a recognized leader in multiculturalism and
musical folklore, an interest which informs many of his compositions like this
arrangement, commissioned by the Pictou District Honor Choir in Nova Scotia, for A
Celebration of Youth and Song in May 2003. Hatfield explains: All Too Soon is set in
Nova Scotia, a province in the Canadian Maritimes where families, who for generations
lived close to the land, and to each other, are now separated by the exodus of young
people who must head to the big cities for work or university. The text is mine (Hatfield)
but the melody is based on three traditional tunes. The opening and closing sections use
the Irish folk melody What Will We Do? from the singing of Mary Delaney and the Silly
Sisters. The main body of the piece interconnects phrases of two mazurkas from
Bretagne, in honor of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Greensleeves is quoted to further
suggest the overlapping of time and the durability of the folk tradition.
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