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As the Rain Hides the Stars

for satb chorus

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for SATB Chorus and Piano

Also available SSA

Traditional Gaelic Prayer
Hinshaw Music - HMC2523

Description

"As the rain hides the stars, as the autumn mist hides the hills..." Here is an exquisite setting of a traditional Gaelic prayer that will bring out all the ethereal beauty of your mixed choir. As the clouds finally part, the sun shines clearly for the first time. "Yet, if I may hold your hand in the darkness, it is enough.
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the Inspiration

Text

As the rain hides the stars, as the autumn mist hides the hills, as the clouds veil the blue of the sky, so the dark happenings of my lot hide your shining face from me. Yet, if I may hold your hand in the darkness, II is enough, though I may stumble in my going, you do not fall. - Traditional Gaelic Prayer

Composer Notes

This setting of a traditional Gaelic prayer moves through uncertainty toward quiet assurance. The piano opens with rain-like staccato figures, while the voices enter with sustained longing — together evoking a restless, searching quality. Growing dissonances mirror the obscured night, deepening with weight and agitation through "dark happenings of my lot," until the music breaks open into broad, confident unison on "yet if I may stumble in my going, you do not fall." The piece closes in stillness, offering a gentle reminder that even in our most uncertain moments, we are not alone.
“Yet if I may hold your hand in the darkness, 
it is enough...”

- Traditional Gaelic Prayer

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