{"id":1514,"date":"2022-06-10T14:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1514"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:51:56","slug":"an-evening-poem-tenor","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/product\/an-evening-poem-tenor\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"innerContentContainer\">[dflip id=\"4139\" type=\"thumb\" ]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Set the poetry of Joseph Smith, Emerson Ead&#8217;s beautiful song &#8220;An Evening Poem&#8221; is available in both baritone and tenor ranges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cdI2xVa2IPo&amp;t=3s\">An Evening Poem <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An Evening Poem<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat now, my friend, brings to mind these gentle thoughts of you?<br \/>\nThe evening sun drenching my cozy room?<br \/>\nOr late summer vegetables, saut\u00e9ed, now simmering in a rich, dark broth?<br \/>\nThe crickets song and lazy flight of birds sheltering for the night bring<br \/>\nThese homeward thoughts which I feel now,<br \/>\nSo deeply in love I know not how.<br \/>\nThese endearing thoughts of moments spent<br \/>\nEnriching,<br \/>\nEncouraging,<br \/>\nEnjoying One another.<br \/>\nThese are the thoughts which bring you now to mind, my friend.<br \/>\nAnd for you, I long and love.<br \/>\nJoseph Smith<br \/>\nSeptember 20, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Note<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile in graduate school at The University of Notre Dame there were two gentlemen who were like family to me, David Eicher and his husband, Joe Smith. David sought me out after a rehearsal with the South Bend Chamber Singers, he handed me this poem that Joe had written for his birthday the previous year and asked if he could commission me to set it to music for Joe\u2019s upcoming birthday. I set the poem and Nolan Carter premiered it at a private birthday party for Joe, accompanied by his husband, David, in 2017. &#8212;Emerson Eads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1912,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[28,52,42,27],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1514","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-baritone","7":"product_cat-emerson-eads","8":"product_cat-individual-songs","9":"product_cat-tenor","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-variable"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}