Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"And So" written and composed by Caroline Shaw
Arrangement by Charlotte Rowan
DR Pigekoret (Danish National Girls’ Choir)
Charlotte Rowan (conductor)
Danish String Quartet
- Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen
- Frederik Øland
- Asbjørn Nørgaard
- Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin
From performance at DR Koncerthuset, March 14th, 2026
with the Danish String Quartet
Stage Design & Direction: Anne Karine Prip & Pelle Nordhøj Kann
Lighting Design: Jonas Bøgh
Sound Producer: Mikkel Nymand
Music Producer: Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir
Tv-producer: Mikkel Suppras
Vocal Teacher: Henriette Nederby
TV-Production Manager: Tanya Fassbinder
Production Manager: Jacob Weitze Mylund
Artistic Director, Editor and Executive Producer: Anne Karine Prip
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Lyrics:
would a song by another name
sound as sweet and true
would all the reds be just the same
or violets as blue
if you were gone would words still flow
and would they rhyme with you
if you were gone would i still know
how to love and how to grow
and how the vowel threads through.
and so they say the saying goes
a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a tired rhyme
but in the verse there’s always time.
would scansion cease to mark the beats
if i went away
would a syllable interrupt the feet
of tetrametric iambs
when i am gone and it is calm
listen
and i will sing a tune of love and life and of the ocean’s prose and the
poetry of a
red,
red,
rose,
that’s newly sprung in june.
and so you say the saying goes
a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
is a rose
is a rose
is how I’m
keeping track of time.
when a’ the seas rise high, my dear
and the rocks melt with the sun
will the memory of us
still rhyme with anyone
will we still tune our violins
will we still sing of roses
will we exist at all, my love,
or will we fade to stanzas of
the dust that i suppose is
all we were and all we’ll be.
and so the saying “so it goes”
depends a lot on if a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
is a rose is a rose is a thing sublime
and so we stay, on borrowed time
"And So" written and composed by Caroline Shaw
Arrangement by Charlotte Rowan
DR Pigekoret (Danish National Girls’ Choir)
Charlotte Rowan (conductor)
Danish String Quartet
- Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen
- Frederik Øland
- Asbjørn Nørgaard
- Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin
From performance at DR Koncerthuset, March 14th, 2026
with the Danish String Quartet
Stage Design & Direction: Anne Karine Prip & Pelle Nordhøj Kann
Lighting Design: Jonas Bøgh
Sound Producer: Mikkel Nymand
Music Producer: Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir
Tv-producer: Mikkel Suppras
Vocal Teacher: Henriette Nederby
TV-Production Manager: Tanya Fassbinder
Production Manager: Jacob Weitze Mylund
Artistic Director, Editor and Executive Producer: Anne Karine Prip
https://drpigekoret.dk
facebook.com/drpigekoret
instagram.com/dr.pigekoret
Lyrics:
would a song by another name
sound as sweet and true
would all the reds be just the same
or violets as blue
if you were gone would words still flow
and would they rhyme with you
if you were gone would i still know
how to love and how to grow
and how the vowel threads through.
and so they say the saying goes
a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a tired rhyme
but in the verse there’s always time.
would scansion cease to mark the beats
if i went away
would a syllable interrupt the feet
of tetrametric iambs
when i am gone and it is calm
listen
and i will sing a tune of love and life and of the ocean’s prose and the
poetry of a
red,
red,
rose,
that’s newly sprung in june.
and so you say the saying goes
a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
is a rose
is a rose
is how I’m
keeping track of time.
when a’ the seas rise high, my dear
and the rocks melt with the sun
will the memory of us
still rhyme with anyone
will we still tune our violins
will we still sing of roses
will we exist at all, my love,
or will we fade to stanzas of
the dust that i suppose is
all we were and all we’ll be.
and so the saying “so it goes”
depends a lot on if a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
is a rose is a rose is a thing sublime
and so we stay, on borrowed time
