Name: On a Sunny Evening
Duration: P00H03M49S
Description: Setting of the poem: On a Sunny Evening by the children in Barracks L318 and L 417, ages 10-16 years.

On a Sunny Evening

from I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Dana Sandler

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Setting of the poem: On a Sunny Evening by the children in Barracks L318 and L 417, ages 10-16 years.

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On a Sunny Evening
-1944 anonymous

On a purple, sun-shot evening
Under wide-flowering chestnut trees
Upon the threshold full of dust
Yesterday, today, the days are all like these.

Trees flower forth in beauty,
Lovely too, their very wood all gnarled and old
That I’m half afraid to peer
Into their crowns of green and gold.

The sun has made a veil of gold
So lovely that my body aches.
Above, the heavens shriek with blue
Convinced I’ve smiled by some mistake.
The world’s abloom and seems to smile.
I want to fly but where, how high?
If in barbed wire, things can bloom
Why couldn’t I? I will not die!

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from I Never Saw Another Butterfly, released April 21, 2020
Dana Sandler: vocals
Carmen Staaf: piano
Rick Stone: alto sax
Jorge Roeder: bass
Austin McMahon: drums & percussion

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Dana Sandler Boston, Massachusetts

Dana Sandler is a vocalist and composer based in Boston, MA. Her debut as a bandleader, I Never Saw Another Butterfly is a chamber jazz song-cycle comprised of 3 instrumentals and 9 musical settings highlighting poetry written by young prisoners in Terezín Concentration Camp (1942-44). “Sandler proves a master melodic alchemist, mixing emotion and history.” – C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz ... more

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