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We rose from rapture | STACY GARROP

STACY GARROP

a composer with a story to tell

a composer with a story to tell

We rose from rapture



AUDIO
Murray State University Choir; Bradley Almquist, conductor

DURATION
3’30”

INSTRUMENTATION
SATB (div.) a cappella

POET
Edna St. Vincent Millay

YEAR COMPOSED
2002

COMMISSIONER
Volti

THIS IS A MOVEMENT FROM:
Sonnets of Vanity, Loss, and Rapture

ORDERING SCORES
This work is published as a digital score with a performance license. The pricing is based on the number of singers in a choir:
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  • $200: 80+ singers
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PERUSAL SCORE
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TEXT
When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our burning their remains
No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
This be our solace: that it was not said
When we were young and warm and in our prime,
Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
Sleeping away the unreturning time.
O sweet, O heavy-lidded, O my love,
When morning strikes her spear upon the land,
And we must rise and arm us and reprove
The insolent daylight with a steady hand,
Be not discountenanced if the knowing know
We rose from rapture but an hour ago. 
  • HELIOS • 4’30” • 2 tpts/flugelhorns, hn, tbn, tba


    PROGRAM NOTES
    In Greek mythology, Helios was the god of the sun. His head wreathed in light, he daily drove a chariot drawn by four horses (in some tales, the horses are winged; in others, they are made of fire) across the sky. At the end of each day’s journey, he slept in a golden boat that carried him on the Okeanos River (a fresh water stream that encircled the flat earth) back to his rising place. The cyclic journey of Helios is depicted in this short work for brass quintet. The first half is fast-paced and very energetic, while the second half is slow and serene, representing day and night.
    -S.G.