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Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962) grew up in the Carolinas and Appalachian Ohio. Her love of music, language and challenging questions is reflected in her catalog of over 100 songs and choral works, and a style which moves effortlessly between concert stage, choir loft and jam session. Her music has been performed by soloists, chamber musicians...

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Elizabeth Alexander (Seafarer Press)

Intertwined

Name: Intertwined
SKU: SEA-162-01
Availability: InStock

Difficulty: 2

Duration: 3-5 min.

SEA-162-01

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SSA or 2-3 pt choir, a cappella

“Intertwined” is an invitation into the deep listening that leads to authentic relationship. Its forthright lyrics are paired with rich folk harmonies and resonant vocal lines. Whether sung on a back porch or on a concert stage, this contemplative song is a timely reminder that “a meeting of the minds begins with a meeting of the hearts.”

This publication contains flexible options for your vocal forces and programming needs, from a graceful two-part duet with optional descant to a fully realized concert arrangement. It also includes a handy program insert in case you’d like to invite your audience to sing along!

Composer’s Notes

There are many ways to sing this song!

* If you want to keep it sweet and simple, go straight to page 12. There you’ll find an intimate, unvarnished duet for solo or choral singers that feels just as welcome on the back porch as it does on the concert stage.

* Sure ’nuff, there’s an optional descant! When you first add the descant you may wish to highlight its lyrics by singing the two other parts on “”oo.””

* As much as I like partner songs, sometimes concert performances benefit from fully written-out scores. The SSA arrangement gradually weaves everything together into an artfully intertwined braid, closing with a graceful coda.

* If you want to invite your audience to sing along, by all means do! On the back of this publication you’ll find the melody line formatted as a program insert. There is no additional charge for printing or projecting the insert in conjunction with your choral performance.

However you choose to sing this song, always remember what it’s about. If we long for a meeting of the minds – and I for one dearly long for that – it begins not with logic and persuasion but with openness and relationship. It begins with a meeting of the hearts.

– Elizabeth Alexander

Text

Intertwined with every thought
Is a tender strand that life has wrought.
There’s a hope, a fear, a love, or grief
Braided through each deep belief.
Intertwined, intertwined,
That is how we’re all designed,
Look within and you will find
Heart and mind intertwined.

Listen to the daily bread and the nightly prayer.
Listen to the newborn baby and the empty chair.
Listen to the promise made and the story told.
Listen to the hidden need and the inner gold.
Listen to the open hand and the furrowed brow.
Listen to the long lost dream and the here-and-now.
Listen to the sum of all the broken parts.
A meeting of our minds begins with the beating of our hearts.

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