Love's Onward Journey

This musical journey tells a love story that challenges one to "be complete", to find "new ways", and ultimately to "rejoice in the freedom of all who sing". A song of moving on from an old life, a song of new pilgrimage. It is a work of quiet, still rejoicing - in the freedom that is the inner life of the singer. 

DETAILS:

• Instrumentation: SSAA unaccompanied
• Duration: 3 minutes
• Author/lyricist: Euan Tait
  
• Language: English
• Year: 2015
• Licensing: Santa Barbara Music Publishing

THE TEXT

So one harvest is gathered,

one seed falls away,

old songs are falling silent,

love leads you to new ways.

Oh this Love,

so rich, so sweet,

erupts from your heart

and cries: “be complete!”

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Step out into new gardens,

step out among the dancing,

step out among the singing

of the beauty of God!

She delights in you!

Rejoice in Him!

Rejoice in the freedom

of all who sing.

by Euan Tait 

Instrumentation: SATB, SSAA, or TTBB div. unaccompanied 

Duration:5minutes

Author/lyricist:Anon 20th century

Language: English

Year: 2011

Licensing: Norsk Musikkforlag

A work about hope in the darkest time of life. The text was written by a Jew hiding in Cologne, Germany, during World War 2 where the text was found scratched onto a wall. 

Commissioned by the St. Olaf Festival (Olavsfestdagene) in Trondheim, Norway, and premiered on July 30 by the Nidaros Cathedral Girls' Choir at an event with the bishop of Nidaros Tor Singsås and actress Liv Ullmann. The SATB version was premiered by the Nidaros Cathedral Boys' Choir on November 26, 2011, in Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim. A TTBB version was commissioned and premiered by Chor Leoni and conductor Erick Lichte in 2017. Arrangments for wind ensemble or brass band are also available.

I believe in the sun, even when it's not shining.

I believe in love, even when I feel it not.

I believe in God, even when He is silent.

Anon. 20th Century