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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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Blessed Be (Szymko)

Joan Szymko

“Blessed Be” dares to invoke the sacred while proclaiming a woman’s innate right to manifest her own path.

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A setting of an iconic text by Robin Morgan, considered one of the founders of contemporary feminism, and author of over twenty books, including the now-classic feminist anthology, “Sisterhood is Powerful.” “Blessed Be” dares to invoke the sacred while proclaiming a woman’s innate right to manifest her own path. The words “blessed be” are sung three times as a refrain to each line of the empowering litany. The triad, or “3-ness”, has a universal significance as a symbol of the unity of spirit, mind and body, all of which are celebrated in the text.

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Blessed be my brain that I may conceive of my own power. Blessed be my breast that I may give sustenance to those I love. Blessed be my womb that I may choose to create what I choose to create. Blessed be my knees that I may bend so as not to break Blessed be my feet that I may walk the path of my highest will.

– Robin Morgan

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