Informationen zu "Samuel Pegg Words: G K Chesterton A Child of The Snows Carols (Mixed Voices), Satb Mixed Voices & Piano"
Verlag: Spartan Press Music Publishers
Verlagsnummer: SP1340
EAN: 9790579983408
ISMN: M-57998-340-8
Beschreibung
A Child of the Snows comes from a set of three carols, settings of poems by
G.K. Chesterton. Duration: 4mins 15s. 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. In A Child of the Snows I have tried to
suggest the wandering, wondering journey to the next staging post, 'the Inn
at the end of the world'. There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim, And
never before or again, When the nights are strong with a darkness long, And
the dark is alive with rain. Never we know but in sleet and in snow, The
place where the great fires are, That the midst of the earth is a raging
mirth And the heart of the earth a star. And at night we win to the ancient
inn Where the child in the frost is furled, We follow the feet where all
souls meet At the inn at the end of the world. The gods lie dead where the
leaves lie red, For the flame of the sun is flown, The gods lie cold where
the leaves lie gold, And a Child comes forth alone.
