Almost immediately the first line of the second verse below started going through my head. There’s a story to how this song began: early one Saturday morning around March of 2005, I was awoken by the cold wind blowing in through my window.
It was the last big number of the concert (not quite the closer, since we sang two lullabies by Charles Ives afterwards), and was well-received. We also premiered a piece I wrote, entitled Promised Land. Stand firm what God has decided, that is and must be the best. There is One who stands above all who gives you, too, what is yours.
What do you want to worry about from day to day? Steh’ feste, was Gott beschleusst, das ist und heisst das Beste.īe calm, as God has ordained, and thus my will shall be content. Sei stille, wie Gott es fügt, so sei vergnügt mein Wille!ĭer Eine steht allem für, der gibt auch dir das Deine. Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren mit Trauren, Below is the German text and a decent translation I found online. The text is by Paul Flemming, and is apparently difficult to translate properly one choir member described Flemming as a “German John Donne,” with whom he was contemporary. Each section is a double canon-one canon between the soprano and tenor, the other between the alto and bass. 30, Geistliches Lied, whose title means “spiritual song.” It is a marvelously composed work: slow, peaceful, yet highly contrapuntal. The second piece we performed was Brahms’ Op. Good musicians all, and we had a great time rehearsing and delivering the performance.Īs almost any proper choral concert should, ours included a mix of music reaching back into the Renaissance, up into the 21st century, with both classical “art” songs and folk songs.
This year, for various reasons, we ended up with only six singers (hence one member billed the choir to her friends as the “Summer Sextet”). Olaf was my “in” the first year, and thereafter I had the benefit of a precedent. While I have never belonged to either of those organizations (the Glee Club because I haven’t been able to commit the time, and the Chorus because-well-it’s a women's ensemble), they have been kind enough to permit me to join them in music-making. It has traditionally been composed primarily of members of the Glee Club and Chorus. I have sung with this group for the last three summers. Last night the Cornell University Summer Choir gave its fourth annual concert.
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