TO THE THAWING WIND by Vera Kistler (1929-2006) uses words by poet Robert Frost. Wonderful tone painting through music and singers enjoy the whirling of the wind by the use of scale passages in this piece. Good for High School students! SATB Choir and Piano. Grade: M Duration: 2:04

Words by Robert Frost:

Come with rain, O loud Southwester!

Bring the singer, bring the nester,

bring the buried flower a dream;

make the settled snowbank steam.

Find the brown beneath the white;

but whate’er you do tonight,

bather my window, make it flow,

melt it as the ice will go….