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- Tarik O'Regan
Blessed are they (2013)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Commissioned in honor of Raymond and Elizabeth Chenault for their 38 years of inspired ministry through music as Organists and Choirmasters of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia, where it was first performed on All Saints’ Sunday, November 3, 2013.
- 2vn.va.vc.db (or string orchestra)
- SATB; org[pf]
- SATB
- 4 min
- Ada Cambridge, Edward Thomas
- English
Programme Note
Text:
Blessed are they whose labours only cease
When God decrees the quiet, sweet release;
Who lie down calmly in the sleep of peace.
Blessed are they!
[Excerpted from All Saint’s Day (1867) by Ada Cambridge (1844-1926)]
I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep
Forest where all must lose
Their way, however straight,
Or winding, soon or late;
They cannot choose.
[Excerpted from Lights Out (1916) by Edward Thomas (1878-1917)]
[Blessed are they!]
Whose dust is angel‐guarded, where the flowers
And soft moss cover it, in this earth of ours;
Whose souls are roaming in celestial bowers.
Blessed are they!
[All Saint’s Day, Ada Cambridge]
Blessed are they whose labours only cease
When God decrees the quiet, sweet release;
Who lie down calmly in the sleep of peace.
Blessed are they!
[Excerpted from All Saint’s Day (1867) by Ada Cambridge (1844-1926)]
I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep
Forest where all must lose
Their way, however straight,
Or winding, soon or late;
They cannot choose.
[Excerpted from Lights Out (1916) by Edward Thomas (1878-1917)]
[Blessed are they!]
Whose dust is angel‐guarded, where the flowers
And soft moss cover it, in this earth of ours;
Whose souls are roaming in celestial bowers.
Blessed are they!
[All Saint’s Day, Ada Cambridge]
Media
O'Regan: Blessed Are They
Tarik O'Regan's "Blessed Are They" sung by Pacific Chorale, Robert Istad music director
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