Nothing Gold Can Stay

$3.25

SAB + Synth (opt. Piano) 3’30”

MainStage Patch (download)


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This setting of Robert Frost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay was composed as a lab work for the Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles's (C3LA) Winter 2026 workshop cycle, exploring practical electrochoral composition. A secondary focus was developing an ethical, composer-authored integration of AI, using Suno app to iterate on original musical material. Live electronics are performed by a single keyboardist via MainStage patch, sans click track or fixed media, keeping tempo and phrasing conductor-led.

Forces

SAB, Synth, Piano

Text

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

By Robert Frost

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