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The Bridge
2002

children’s chorus
flute
clarinet
2 trumpets
trombone
piano
percussion 
  snare drum, suspended cymbal, triangle 
doublebass 

duration 7'

commissioned by The City of Boston for the opening of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge 
first performance:
Boston Children’s Chorus, cond. Grant Llewellyn
Blackman Auditorium, Boston / October 10, 2002

SCORE

TEXTS
Earth has not anything to show more fair: 
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by 
A sight so touching in its majesty; 
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, 
Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie 
Open unto the fields, and to the sky; 
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep 
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; 
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! 
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) from Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 

Great are Yourself and Myself, 
We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any, 
What the best and worst did, we could do, 
What they felt, do not we feel it in ourselves? 
What they wished, do we not wish the same? 
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) from Great Are The Myths 

Earth has not anything to show more fair: 
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by 
A sight so touching in its majesty; 
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning;
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
And all that mighty heart is lying still!