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Jocelyn Hagen
Timothy C. Takach
Graphite Publishing
Love/Light (from This is How You Love)
Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach
A perfectly crafted partner song.
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This is How You Love
SATB double choir a cappella
from This is How You Love
This partner song features poetry from legendary poets E. E. Cummings and Hafiz (in a beautiful translation by Daniel Ladinsky). Each song is complete on its own, but when they are put together something magical happens. This gem is a stand-out movement from the masterful larger work and is accessible even with its divisi.
Text
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.
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.
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