...And the Song Am I
Voicing: SATB chorus, brass quintetText: Lily A. Long (edited and adapted)
Duration: 2 min.
Premiere: May 3, 2008; Dale Warland, conductor (Marshall, MN)
Commissioned by: Choirs of Note™ in recognition of the dedication and art of Minnesota's youth and music educators
Published by: Self-published, AB-056-00 (2008)
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…And the Song Am I
Cold may lie the day,
And bare of grace;
At night I slip away
To the singing place.
Where faint and far away
I hear the beat
In broken rhythm and rhyme
Of joyous feet…
The thunderous music peals
Around, o'erhead -
The dead would awake to hear
If there were dead;
But the life of the throbbing Sun
Is in the song,
And we weave the world anew,
With the singing throng!
And the pulsing chant swells up
To touch the sky,
And the song is joy,
is hope,
is peace,
is life -
And the song am I!
"The Singing Place" by Lily A. Long. Published 1912 in Poetry magazine. Public domain. Edited and adapted by Abbie Betinis.
Cold may lie the day,
And bare of grace;
At night I slip away
To the singing place.
Where faint and far away
I hear the beat
In broken rhythm and rhyme
Of joyous feet…
The thunderous music peals
Around, o'erhead -
The dead would awake to hear
If there were dead;
But the life of the throbbing Sun
Is in the song,
And we weave the world anew,
With the singing throng!
And the pulsing chant swells up
To touch the sky,
And the song is joy,
is hope,
is peace,
is life -
And the song am I!
"The Singing Place" by Lily A. Long. Published 1912 in Poetry magazine. Public domain. Edited and adapted by Abbie Betinis.