Children's choir, SATB choir, piano accompaniment - Intermediate SKU: MN.56-0042
Composed by Howard Goodall. 21st Century. Octavo. MorningStar Music Publishers #56-0042. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.56-0042). UPC: 688670220470. English.
Commissioned by The Voices Foundation in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the ending of World War II, this most somber and dramatic piece uses texts from David Geraint Jones and William Shakespeare to chronicle the recollections and reflections of a soldier, which are not for the faint of heart. Thinking back on a more carefree past, the “speaker†assures his love that the future will again hold quiet and wonder. However, the price to be paid in between the past and the future is in blood and death. The soldier predicts poppies swaying over him as he lies freed of pain, yes, but also of passion. And he concludes, “Your peace is bought with mine, if but the echo of your laughter reaches me in hell.â€.
