Life Has Loveliness

This musical setting reflects the poem's optimistic spirit and the loveliness of life exemplified through nature, music, children, love and peace. Sara Teasdale's famous words of advice, "Spend all you have for loveliness, buy it and never count the cost" inspire a hushed, dramatic statement. Alternating homophonic and contrapuntal sections modulate and evolve, rising to a climactic ending.