Dreamscapes 2024 Concert | performed by The San Fernando Valley Master Chorale

Dreamscapes 2024 Concert | performed by The San Fernando Valley Master Chorale
Three Songs of Faith
Composed by Eric Whitacre
Poetry by e.e. Cummings
Conducted by Charlie Kim
Performed by The San Fernando Valley Master Chorale
I. I will wade out
i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of sea-girls
Will i complete the mystery of my flesh
I will rise
After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
And set my teeth in the silver of the moon
II. hope, faith, life, love
Hope
Faith
Life
Love
III. I Thank You God
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
III. I Thank You God