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Carol Barnett
Carol Barnett (Beady Eyes)
Welcome all Wonders
This unique piece will liven up your holiday concert, combining voices and oboe in a joyful celebration that captures the mystery of the nativity.
SATB, children’s choir (SA), oboe
With layered entrances by oboe, treble/children’s choir, and SATB, joy and welcome abound in this piece. A contemplative middle section provides a calming contrast to the unbridled joy of Christmas Day.
Composer’s Notes
“Welcome all Wonders” was commissioned by the Racine Symphonic Chorus, James Schatzman, conductor, in celebration of its 10th Anniversary Season.
– Carol Barnett
Text
Welcome all wonders in one sight!
Eternity shut in a span.
Summer in winter, day in night.
Heaven in earth, and God in man.
Great Little One, whose all-embracing birth
Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heaven to earth!
To Thee, meek Majesty! soft King
Of simple Graces and sweet Loves,
Each of us his Lamb will bring,
Each his pair of silver doves;
Till burnt at last in fire of Thy fair eyes,
Our selves become our own best sacrifice.
from “In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God”
– Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
Moonless Darkness Stands Between
Moonless darkness stands between,
Past, O past, no more be seen!
But the Bethlehem star may lead me
To the sight of Him who freed me
From the self that I have been.
Make me pure, Lord: Thou are holy;
Make me meek, Lord; Thou wert lowly;
Now beginning and alway;
Now begin, on Christmas day.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
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