for the Amherst College Concert Choir Mallorie Chernin, director
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Music © 2014 Gregory W. Brown (ASCAP) “Then” from CEREMONY AND OTHER POEMS by Richard Wilbur. Copyright © 1950, renewed 1978 by Richard Wilbur. Used by permissionPlease of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. This score is not licensed for performance. visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.