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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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Every Child Has Known God

Name: Every Child Has Known God
SKU: JS-129
Availability: InStock

Joan Szymko

A playful, fun, highly rhythmic piece with an opportunity for dance collaboration.

Choral

mixed choir

a cappella, percussion

fast

fall, sacred, secular, spring, summer, winter

Difficulty: 5

Duration: 3-5 min.

JS-129

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SATB, sop soli (2), hard shoe dancer (may substitute with bodhrán)

Every Child Has Known God is playful, fun, highly rhythmic with soprano soli (2) and presents an opportunity for dance collaboration. It is the final movement from a colorful, varied trio of settings for advanced mixed ensemble settings of mystical poets featuring unconventional accompanying forces; e.g., bassoon trio, marimba ensemble, contrabass, singing bowl, accordion.

Text

Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,s
Not the God of don’ts,
Not the God who ever does
Anything weird,
But the God who knows only four words.
And keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come dance with Me.”
Come
Dance.