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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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There Shall Be Christmas Day (SATB)
A powerful, poignant reflection on the essence of Christmas.
Difficulty: 3
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There Shall Be Christmas Day
SATB a cappella with divisi, optional piano accompaniment
Text
Led by a star, a golden star,
Here the kings and the shepherds are,
A’kneeling on the ground.
What did they come to the inn to see?
A baby asleep on His mother’s knee
And with her kisses crowned.
Now is the earth a dreary place,
A troubled place, a weary place.
Peace has hidden her lovely face
And turned in tears away.
Yet the sun, through the war-cloud, sees
Babies asleep on their mother’s knees.
While there are love and home-and these –
There shall be Christmas Day.
– Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
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