"Twinkle, Twinkle" like you've never heard it before

"The Star," (aka "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") for SATB voices and piano, with divisi
Music composed by Clark William Lawlor
Performed by the Choral Arts Initiative, June 2024, Irvine, CA.
Brandon Elliott, artistic director
Ali Sandweiss Hodges, conducting
Hanaki Duffie, piano

Sheet music available at
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This brand new setting breathes fresh new life Jane Taylor's famous poem, "The Star" (aka "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,") and highlights the lesser known verses of the poem.

Taylor's poem reminds us to appreciate the guiding lights in our lives-- those people that give us direction and purpose, and make life worth living! Thank you!

The Star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

When the blazing sun is set,
And the grass with dew is wet,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see where to go
If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye
Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveler in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

--Jane Taylor, 1806

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