Lamentations, Light, and Hope - Winikoff, Michael

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"This piece was commissioned by the [https://www.miv.org.au/ 69th Intervarsity Choral Festival], on the theme of Light the Dark. The third part, Lux, could also be done on its own, as could the fourth part, Hope. Note: contact the composer for string parts."

⌛ Period → Contemporary ◈ Genre → Other ♬ Voicing → SA ¶ Language → English

Parts 2

Instruments {{StrAcc

Pages 17

CPDL # 48633

Editor Michael Winikoff

Posted 2018-02-01

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¶Lyrics / Text

I ''(Lamentations 1:1, translation by Michael Winikoff)'' How can it be that she sits alone? The city once so full of people now sits as a widow Once great among the nations, now she is a slave (How can it be that she sits alone?) II ''(Lamentations 1:2, translation by Michael Winikoff)'' Crying, she cries in the night Crying, her tears on her cheek Of all her lovers none shall comfort her (Crying, she cries in the night) (Crying, her tears on her cheek) All her friends betrayed her (Crying, she cries in the night) (Crying, her tears on her cheek) (Trojan Women1, translation from Greek by Professor Gilbert Murray, 1915) Go, die, [my best-beloved,] my cherished one, . . . . . . Thou little thing That curlest in my arms . . . Kiss me. III Lux. Lux et spem. IV ''(Verse 1 of “Song for Equal Suffrage” from “Suffrage Songs and Verses”2 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)'' Day of hope [and] day of glory! After slavery and woe, Comes the dawn of woman’s freedom, and the light shall grow and grow Until every man and woman equal liberty shall know, In Freedom marching on! # [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10096 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10096] # [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gilman/suffrage/suffrage.html http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gilman/suffrage/suffrage.html]