Songs for the Journey
I. Into Your Hands
II. When All That's Left of Me Is Love
III. More Love
IV. Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep (Soprano Solo)
V. Celtic Blessing
Soprano Solo, SATB Chorus (divisi), and Keyboard, or Harp (Piano) and Strings, or Chamber Orchestra
Duration: 16 Minutes
Text: Various
Year: 2010
Commissioned by: Concord Chorale
Premiered by: Concord Chorale, Concord, NH, Ryan Turner, director, April 17, 2010
Publisher: E. C. Schirmer Music Company #8784
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Songs for the Journey was originally commissioned to be a companion piece to the Fauré Requiem. I have long admired this work for its personal tone, and for the way in which Fauré emphasized the beauty and intimacy of the traditional Latin texts. In assembling the movements of Songs for the Journey, I chose texts with uniquely personal stories and connections. More Love, a song I had written for my wife when we were expecting our first child, became the cornerstone movement. Together, the five movements explore similar themes as the traditional requiem—love, faith, and mortality—but in a non-liturgical framework, with poems and texts drawn from a variety of sources.
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Choral Score - 8784
Full Score, Harp (Piano) and Strings - 8784A
Parts, Harp (Piano) and Strings - 8784B
Full Score, Chamber Orchestra (2 Horns in F, Harp, Organ, and Low Strings) - 8784C
Parts, Chamber Orchestra - RentalAvailable separately:
Into Your Hands - 8785
When All That’s Left of Me Is Love - 8786
More Love - 8787
Celtic Blessing - 8788