What Stood Will Stand


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What Stood Will Stand
Publication Details

	Catalogue Number	Duration		Format
	PEL2047	5:30 mins		SATB unaccomp choral octavo
	Level of Difficulty	Pages Music		Copyright Year
	Difficult	14 pages 16 page book with four -page cover		1986
	Difficult	14 pages 16 page book with four -page cover
	Description/Remarks PEL2047 What Stood Will Stand is the setting for a text by Wendell Berry from his collection "Sabbaths". Created by Paul Halley for the occasion of a sermon given by Wendell Berry at The Cathedral of St. John The Divine, New York. Also includes Alleluias and part of the Nicene Creed. A musical setting that is as powerful and moving as the words in this profoundly imagined poetry. Sustained sound of the Berry text is made vibrant by the light and rhythmic droplets of the 'Alleluias'. Composer's Notes: 'Wendell Berry is a personal hero of mine, not only for his poetry and his bold essays of social criticism, but also as an example of a man who seems to have gone farther than most in integrating his thinking with his living. He came to the Cathedral a couple of times while I was Director of Music, and at one Sunday service he gave the sermon. I was honored to compose an anthem for that occasion using one of Wendell's poems from "Sabbaths" and interpolating Alleluias and that part of the Nicene Creed which reads 'We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen'." __________________________________________________ Composed for the occasion of a sermon given by American poet, essayist, teacher and farmer, Wendell Berry. at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York.
Uses/Season	Voicing/Instrumentation		Sound Clip		◙♫
Concert Service Anthem	SATB Choir unaccompanied		Recording Wondrous Love CD JN104CD - Track 10		JN104 CD $16.98
Order No.	Item Description		Price		Buy Now
PEL2047	Choral score SATB with divisi Choral Score Order Min: 12 (except in Sampler)		$3.80 ($3.42)		Choral Score Min: 12
	Texts and Translations What Stood Will Stand Words: Wendell Berry from “Sabbaths” What stood will stand, though all be fallen, The good return that time has stolen. Though creatures groan in misery, Their flesh prefigures liberty To end travail and bring to birth Their new perfection in new earth. At word of that enlivening Let the trees of the wood all sing And every field rejoice. Let praise Rise up out of the ground like grass. What stood, whole, in ev’ry piecemeal Thing that stood, will stand though all fall. Field and woods and all in them Rejoin the primal Sabbath’s hymn From The Nicene Creed Et expecto resurrectionem motuorum. Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen. Alleluia. And I look for the resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen. Alleluia

Words: Wendell Berry from “Sabbaths”