Informationen zu "Samuel Pegg Words: G K Chesterton The House Of Christmas Carols (Mixed Voices), Satb Mixed Voices & Piano"
Verlag: Spartan Press Music Publishers
Verlagsnummer: SP1339
EAN: 9790579983392
ISMN: M-57998-339-2
Beschreibung
The House of Christmas comes from a set of three carols, settings of poems by
G.K. Chesterton. Duration: 3mins 40s. G.K.C. was a great traveller and on
his wanderings a friend to everyone he met. In his own house, he was famed
for his warmth and hospitality. It is not surprising, then that The Inn was
for him almost a spiritual symbol. In all of my settings of his poems I have
tried to convey the sense of a yearning journey of life coupled with the joy
of finding something thought lost forever: we travel to a place that, if we
are truthful, we never really left. The idea at the centre of The House of
Christmas that I dramatise is Chesterton's: that joy is a 'gigantic secret'
which resides at the end of all our travelling. There fared a mother driven
forth Out of an inn to roam, In the place where she was homeless All men are
at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting
sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of
Rome. For men are homesick in their homes, And strangers under the sun, And
they lay on their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. Here we
have battle and blazing eyes, And chance and honour and high surprise, But
our homes are under miraculous skies Where the yule tale was begun. This
world is wild as an old wives' tale, And strange the plain things are, The
earth is enough and the air is enough For our wonder and our war, But our
rest is as far as the fire-drake swings And our peace is put in impossible
things Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings Round an incredible star.
