So it was I

SecularWar & PeaceProject:Encore ☆Am. Prize Finalist ☆Hope Series
Written By Michael Bussewitz-Quarm

Arrangements

  • SATB

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Description

Part of The Hope Series — This text is set in a landscape of conflict and beauty. Where the conflict lies – within the narrator’s being or as part of a landscape scarred by an actual current war, is left ambiguous, for, as Thomas Merton understood, all wars have their origin in individual human hearts. However, another keynote of this text is tenderness, towards the beauty of the damaged landscape, but also towards human lives damaged by our conflicts. The narrator meets a wounded young soldier, becoming his reluctant healer, welcoming him as a stranger, just as we pilgrims are on a journey to bring ourselves back from exile into a home in our own selves.

 
 

Difficulty

Medium-Advanced

Instrument(s)

Unaccompanied

Copyright Year

2019

Product ID

MB1048-SATB

Michael Bussewitz-Quarm
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