TTBB choir and piano (Orchestra: 2 1 1 1 — 2 2 1 0 — 1 — 0 — Str — TTBB Chorus, Percussion (Timpani, Tenor Drum, Suspended Cymbal, Crash Cymbals)) - Moderately Easy - Digital Download

SKU: MQ.8600-E

Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. Secular, 21st century. Downloadable choral score. 12 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 30 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8600-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8600-E).

English.

A celebration of life, unity, and music, this is a setting of a poem by the 19th-century British author John Addington Symonds (1840-1893). The text speaks of the future with hope: A loftier race then e'er the world has known shall rise. The healing and transforming power of music is essential to this hope. When every life shall be a song, then all the earth is a paradise. Throughout, the message is triumphant: These things shall be!
The musical expression alternates between added-tone chords (representing building for the future) and melodic phrases for the more tender passages of the poem: we will be gentle, brave, and strong ). Commissioned and premiered by the Boston Gay Men's Chorus. Duration: 3:30.