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The Rain Is Full Of Ghosts

Three songs on poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay for mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano

duration: approx. 14 minutes
catalog number VI-RFG31
Purchase at J. W. Pepper; $23.00 score and part


The Rain Is Full Of Ghosts has been recorded by the Chiaroscuro Trio on their debut CD New People. Order the CD from Amazon. Or download from iTunes.

Listen to the second movement.

II. Summer To Your Heart


The Rain Is Full Of Ghosts was commissioned by the Indiana Music Educators Association, and composed during the summer of 2006. The first performance took place that November at Anderson University, by Colleen Davis, mezzo-soprano; Daniel Powers, viola; and Martha Krasnican, piano.