the meadow

Text by Gina Stevensen Eric Riedel - tenor Calvin Stovall - piano Commissioned for the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Art Song composer Mentorship Program hmmmmmm hmmmmmm bzzzzzz bzzzz bzz bz shhhhhhh here, sunlight here, thunder here, treetops bare and reaching soon budding soon trembling opening into color opening down below our fruiting body in the dark in the quiet decompose decompose there is no time only suns and moons coming and going birth and dying there is no time hmmmmmm hmmmmmm bzzzzzz bzzzz bzz bz shhhhhhh —gina stevensen (2026)