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Lorelei Ensemble
Mother of Exiles
Mary Montgomery Koppel
A serene piece based on words that call us to empathy, charity, and openness.
SSAA a cappella
On January 29, 2017, Beth Willer reached out to ask if I would be interested in setting the inscription on the Statue of Liberty for Lorelei Ensemble. In America’s current political and cultural climate, I can think of no poem more timely and timeless. I said “yes” immediately.
I aimed in my setting to convey the simple but powerful message in the comforting, nurturing tone of Emma Lazarus’s original poem. Let us all remember these words, as striking and compelling now as they were back in 1883 when they were first heard and read—words that call us to empathy, charity, and openness.
M. M. K.
Composer’s Notes
On January 29, 2017, Beth Willer reached out to ask if I would be interested in setting the inscription on the Statue of Liberty for Lorelei Ensemble. In America’s current political and cultural climate, I can think of no poem more timely and timeless. I said “yes” immediately.
I aimed in my setting to convey the simple but powerful message in the comforting, nurturing tone of Emma Lazarus’s original poem. Let us all remember these words, as striking and compelling now as they were back in 1883 when they were first heard and read—words that call us to empathy, charity, and openness.
M. M. K.
Text
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
– excerpt from The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)
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