Consolation: Requiem for Parkland (SSAA) WORLD PREMIERE

"Consolation: Requiem for Parkland" (SSAA) WORLD PREMIERE Performance
Jan 23, 2020 at the Colorado Music Educators Association Clinic/Conference
Composer: John Muehleisen www.johnmuehleisen.com
Choir: Arvada West High School Company West
Conductor: Chris Maunu www.chrismaunu.com
Accompanist: Emily Keelan
Chimes: Jacqueline Pankratz
The concept the overall CMEA program was born out of a shooting threat at our school and an original poem by our student, Taylor Huntley. The centerpiece of this program is this stunning work by John Muehleisen. Originally, John composed the work for SATB a cappella choir and chimes after the shooting in Newtown, CT. When director, Chris Maunu, approached him to reimagine the piece for SSAA choir, piano, and chimes, John was delighted. Please visit John Muehleisen's website for a much more in-depth description and purchasing details of this outstanding work.
All are not taken; there are left behind living Belovèds, tender looks to bring, and make the daylight still a happy thing, and tender voices, to make soft the wind. But if it were not so-if I could find no love in all the world for comforting, nor any path but hollowly did ring, where ‘dust to dust’ the love from life disjoin’d, and if, before those sepulchres unmoving, I stood alone (as some forsaken lamb goes bleating up the moors in weary dearth), crying ‘Where are ye, O my loved and loving?’… I know a Voice would sound, ‘Daughter, I AM. Can I suffice for HEAVEN, and not for earth?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Réquiem aetérnam dóna éis Dómine: et lux perpétua, lúceat eis (Translation: Grant eternal rest to them, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon them.) - from the Introit of the Requiem Mass

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Very beautiful and moving!