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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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Nothing Short of Grace

Name: Nothing Short of Grace
SKU: JS-085
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Joan Szymko

Appropriate for any occasion that reflects on challenges requiring inner fortitude.

Choral

treble choir

piano

fall, secular, spring, summer, winter

Difficulty: 3

Duration: 3-5 min.

JS-085

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Composed to be accessible to singers of varying skills for a women’s choral festival finale, “Nothing Short of Grace” is appropriate for any occasion that features reflection on those challenges requiring inner fortitude. The work was inspired by the #MeToo movement and is a part of Szymko’s DARE TO BE POWERFUL choral series; moderate to advanced choral works that are passionate expressions of women’s worth, power and potential.

(selected for reading session at 2019 ACDA National Conference)

Text

To take one step takes courage.
To take one step takes heart.
It takes heart.
But to keep going, never knowing
what may lie ahead.
To choose the unknown and
look fear in the face:
That is nothing short of grace.

To take one step takes courage.

To take one step takes heart.
It takes heart.
Sister, keep going,
though you may not know what lies ahead.
Choose the unknown and
look fear in the face:
That is nothing short of grace.

– Joan Szymko

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