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Dale Trumbore

Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer and writer whose music has been praised by The New York Times for its “soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies.” Her music has been widely performed in the U.S. and internationally by ensembles including the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Chorale, Pasadena Symphony, The Singers...

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Glorious, Glorious (SSAA)

Name: Glorious, Glorious (SSAA)
SKU: DT0060
Availability: InStock

Dale Trumbore

This joyful carol sets to music the buoyant final scene of Charles Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol.”

Difficulty: 3

Duration: less than 3 min.

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“Glorious, Glorious” sets to music excerpts from the joyous final scene of Charles Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol.” Here, bells chime in celebration of Christmas Day as Ebenezer Scrooge awakens from his encounter with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. No longer the miserly curmudgeon he used to be, Scrooge resolves to live in the “Past, the Present and the Future” and to bring the spirit of Christmas into his daily life.

Though Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843, its message is timeless: resolve to honor the past, present and future by living a joyful, compassionate life every day.

“Glorious, Glorious” is dedicated to the participating choruses of the Christmas Past, Christmas Future! Carol Consortium, who co-commissioned this piece along with “Completing the Circle.” While “Completing the Circle” sets a modern text that recalls nostalgic memories of Christmas, “Glorious, Glorious” sets a classic text that looks ahead to a bright future. These pieces can be programmed together or separately.

Text

No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold;
cold, piping for the blood to dance to;
Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells.
Oh, glorious. Glorious.

Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell.
Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash.
A merry Christmas to everybody!
A happy New Year to all the world.

I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!
The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel.
Oh, glorious, glorious.

Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell.
Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash.
A merry Christmas to everybody!
A happy New Year to all the world.

I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.

Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell.
Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash.
A merry Christmas to everybody!
A happy New Year to all the world.

— Charles Dickens,
adapted by the composer

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