LOVE/LIGHT (2017)
from This is How You Love
Co-composed with Jocelyn Hagen
SATB double choir a cappella
Commissioned and composed for The Esoterics and Eric Banks, Founding Director,for the first program of The Esoterics’ 25th concert season, DĒLECTŌ,with partial support from a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Secular
Choral score
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Text:
yours is the light by which my spirit’s born:
yours is the darkness of my soul’s return
you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
- E. E. Cummings, “silently if, out of not knowable” from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962, by E. E. Cummings, Edited by George J. Firmage, is used with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright (c) 1963, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust.
Even after all these years,
the Sun never says
to the Earth
“You owe Me.”
Look what happens—
with a Love
like that,
it lights
the whole
sky.
- Hafiz, trans. Ladinsky, “The Sun Never Says” from The Gift, copyright 1999 by Daniel Ladinsky, and used with permission.