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What Stood Will
Stand - by Paul Halley |
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Catalogue Number - PEL2047 SATB Voicing/Instrumentation - SATB Choir Unaccompanied Level of Difficulty - Difficult Uses/Season - Concert, Service Anthem |
Duration - 5:30 mins Pages Music - 14 pages - 20 page booklet |
Format - SATB unaccompanied choral octavo Copyright Year - 1986  SATB perusal - pages 1-3 of 14 |
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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'. Composed 1986 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. __________________________________________________ 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'." |
Sound Clip
◙♫ from Wondrous Love CD Full track below at left Recording Wondrous Love CD JN104CD Track 10  JN104 CD available in digital format only |
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