All is Found, for the left hand - by Andrew Wu
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by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, arranged by Holden Mui, for left-hand piano
Program notes for Holden’s arrangement of All is Found. More to come later, for other works. In the first scene of Frozen II, a flashback, with young Elsa and young Anna curled up against her, their mother Iduna sings All is Found. It’s a lullaby about Ahtohallan, a river her mother told her “hold[s] all the answers about the past.” Where the north wind meets the sea There’s a river full of memory Sleep, my darling, safe and sound For in this river, all is found In this stanza, Iduna’s voice is warm and restrained. So too is the instrumental backing, which comprises two lines—both…
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