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Joan Szymko

Joan Szymko is widely regarded as an outstanding composer of choral music in America today. With a catalog of over 100 choral works in print, her music is sung regularly at choral festivals and competitions across North America and abroad and for nearly two decades has been heard on stage or in sessions at every...

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We Are a Circle

Name: We Are a Circle
SKU: JS-045
Availability: InStock

Joan Szymko

A highly rhythmic and energizing piece that honors the circle.

fall, secular, spring, summer, winter

Difficulty: 2

Duration: 3-5 min.

JS-045

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SAA, a cappella, perc

In earth and nature-based spiritual traditions such as Native American and contemporary Wicca, honoring the directions or “casting” a circle is an important opening ritual. This arrangement of Rick Hamouris’ “We Are a Circle” is fun , dynamic and energizing — a rousing concert opener. Percussion parts available separately.

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Refrain:
We are a circle within a circle
with no beginning, and never ending.

You hear us sing, you hear us cry,
now hear us call you, spirits of Air and Sky.
Inside our hearts there glows a spark,
love and desire, a burning Fire

Within our blood, within our tears,
There lies the altar of living water.
Take our fear, take our pain
Take the darkness into the Earth again
.
The circle closes between two worlds
To mark this sacred space where we come face to face.
We are a circle within a circle
with no beginning, and never ending.

-Rick Hamouris

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