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The Will of a Sailor (SATB)
Lauren Biggs
Capturing the nostalgia of remembering someone who’s passed on.
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The Will of a Sailor
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The Will of a Sailor
for SATB a cappella choir
Inspired by Irish folk music, “The Will of a Sailor” captures the nostalgia of remembering someone who’s passed on. Gorgeous harmonies serve as a sendoff for those who have departed, and provide a refuge for those who grieve. The piece lingers on the word “Home,” ebbing and flowing like the tides.
Lauren Biggs (2002) is a California-based composer, producer, and singer/songwriter. Lauren strives to tell meaningful stories, spread joy through collaborative music-making, and to create and share her art as an act of reverence to a higher power. Originally from Alaska, Lauren is currently pursuing her BM in Composition at Azusa Pacific University. For more info: laurenbiggsmusic.com
Composer’s Notes
After my father’s death in a paragliding accident in 2023, I began to relate to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Requiem on a more personal level. Not only is this piece a requiem, but it’s also a sendoff. Inspired by Irish folk music, it captures the nostalgia of remembering someone who’s passed on. The sailor. The hunter. The adventurer. These words more or less capture who my father was. He was also a musician, and without him or my mother I would not be able to study music — which is a great privilege. So this is, in a way, a song of gratitude. Writing it helped me process my emotions during a season of grief. I hope it can serve a similar purpose for others.
– Lauren Biggs
Text
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
– Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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