Sing me to heaven is perhaps the most written-about choral work of the 20th century, as many different meanings can be derived from the beautiful text. Sing me a lullaby, a love song, a requiem, Touch in me grief and comfort love and passion, Pain and pleasure. Touch in me all love and passion, pain and pleasure,
If you would mourn me and bring me to God, If you would win my heart, sing me a love song. If you would comfort me, sing me a lullaby. In response to aching silence memory summons half-heard voices,Īnd my soul finds primal eloquence and wraps me in song. Words alone are vain and vacant, and my heart is mute. In my heart’s sequestered chambers lie truths stripped of poet’s gloss. 1942)Ĭommunion Anthem Sing me to heaven Daniel Gawthrop (b. įraction Anthem Christ our Passover Jeffrey Rickard (b. This fifth movement is a joyous acclamation of the belief in Jesus’ ascent into heaven. James’s in Hartford/West Hartford the cycle was completed in 1986 for the 75th anniversary of All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Alleluia!Īmerican composer Ned Rorem composed the first of his Seven Motets for the Church Year in 1977 on a commission from Christ Church Cathedral, Trinity and St.
The Lord is among them as in the holy place of sinai he is gone up on high, he hath led captivity captive. God is gone up with a merry noise, and the Lord with the sound of the trumpet.
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