Through Purple Mists Ascending

Concert Band Flexible Orchestration
Duration circa 3:20
Grade 3
J.W. Pepper Editors' Choice selection

In this response to the Willa Cather poem Prairie Dawn, an animated pastoral frolic gives way to a setting of the bittersweet Scottish ballad Barbara Allen. The historical and literary connections in the work provide opportunities for cross-curricular lesson activities.

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