There Will Come Soft Rains (2022)
(for mixed choir)

There will come soft rains sets the American poet Sara Teasdale’s poem of the same title. Teasdale’s poem sends a powerful message: nature will prevail, with or without humanity. A humbling thought.

At the end of my work, representing Teasdale’s poem’s spring awakening, the sopranos sing in canon an excerpt of Hildegard von Bingen’s (1098-1179) O nobilissima viriditas - a beautiful composition about the divinity of nature and greenness.

- Joel Järventausta