SATB choir + handheld rocks - 4 minutes - medium difficulty
This piece is a meditation on what we have failed to do for the planet, but what is still yet possible. Baratunde Thurston's extemporaneous remarks during a 2022 NPR interview on "1A" were stunning. Haunting and hopeful.
"If the land could speak, the land would weep for all the pain it has witnessed us cause ourselves. The land would tell us: 'There's a better way to be, if you just listen to me. I'm a part of you, not apart from you. So let's do this thing together.' The land would say: 'I am the common ground that can allow you to communicate across your seeming differences. So use me in that way. I'll offer myself up, respectfully.' " - Baratunde Thurston