Through Love to Light

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for SATB Chorus and Piano

Text by Richard Watson Gilder
Elaine Hagenberg Music - EH1002

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With a lively piano accompaniment, folk music influences, an uplifting hope-filled message, and soaring vocal lines, this piece overflows with excitement and joy from start to finish. Commissioned by Urbandale High School and conducted by Theodore Brimeyer for the 2019 National American Choral Directors Association Conference.

the Inspiration

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Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way That leads from darkness to the perfect day! From darkness and from sorrow of the night To morning that comes singing o’er the sea. Through love to light! Through light, O God, to thee, Who art the love of love, the eternal light of light! - Richard Watson Gilder

Composer Notes

When I first began composing this piece, my aim was to weave shimmering memories of their time together alongside the dissonant heartache of reality.