Voicing/instrumentation:

SATB with soprano soloist (also available for SSAA)

Lyrics: J. Van Alstyne Weaver

Duration: 4:00

Difficulty: moderate-advanced (GIA level 4)

Premiere performance by West Linn High School Symphonic Choir

Practice tracks available here

Atmospheric and ethereal, this song makes the shifting vision of the Northern Lights audible.

And now each shimmering veil Sea-greens and sapphires Jewelled with orange fire Floats from the star she pinned it to.

Weaver, John Van Alstyne. “Northern Lights.” Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, May 1918: 72.