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Reginal Wright
Graphite Publishing
The Gift to Sing
A reminder that through song we can be healed and find community.
SATB (div.), piano
“The Gift to Sing” tells a story anyone can relate to: from the mists of sadness and difficulty, singing helps us find joy and sunlight again. Wright’s piece is divided into two sections. The first section sets the emotional stage of tension and difficulty. In the second section the tension is relieved with cascading voices calling all people to share the gift of song.
Text
Sometimes the mist overhangs my path,
And blackening clouds about me cling;
But, oh, I have a magic way
To turn the gloom to cheerful day—
I softly sing.
And if the way grows darker still,
Shadowed by Sorrow’s somber wing,
With glad defiance in my throat,
I pierce the darkness with a note,
And sing, and sing.
I brood not over the broken past,
Nor dread whatever time may bring;
No nights are dark, no days are long,
While in my heart there swells a song,
And I can sing.
– James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
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