composer: Jeff Smallman
text: E. Pauline Johnson
Duration: 4:45
SATB, piano
Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson's work is filled with an inherent lyricism. In the Shadows has taken advantage of this to provide an exquisite musical description of a summer moment on the river. This work was declared Runner-up in the 2003 Karen Schuessler Singers Choral Composition Competition.