SEA Faith is the bird that feels the light. Rabindranath Tagore. SSA a cappella. Elizabeth Alexander. Seafarer Press

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1 SE is the bird eels the light Rabindranath Tagore SS a caella Elizabeth lexander Seaarer Press

2 is the bird eels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore, rom Firelies Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861, where he was exosed rom an early age to both Indian and Western culture and thought. roliic writer o oems, stories and novels, he is best known or Gitanjali, a book o oems about divine and human love. Tagore was also a musician and songwriter; two o his songs are now the national anthems o Bangladesh and India. The quote on which this song is based is taken rom Firelies, a collection o 56 eigrams and short verses rom Southeast sia. Growing u in the Carolinas and alachian Ohio, Elizabeth lexander gained her irst love o language and music rom her arents, a minister and a iano teacher. These twin assions are relected in her catalogue o over 100 choral and vocal ieces, which have received over 0 national and international awards, and which have been erormed by thousands o choirs. Her coosition teachers have included Jack Gallagher at The College o Wooster, and Steven Stucky, Yehudi Wyner and Karel Husa at Cornell University, where she received her doctorate in music coosition. recent McKnight Coosition Fellow, Elizabeth lives in St. Paul, MN, where her requent commissions include works or orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles and solo musicians. In addition to coosing, Elizabeth teaches little ingers to lay, shamelessly encourages her teenagers jokes, and tends her garden during the three month eriod in Minnesota is not winter. She believes she has the best job in the world. For more inormation about Elizabeth s music, visit Cover art: Dove o Peace by Christina Franks ter graduating rom Vanderbilt University, Christina Franks worked or 17 years as a couter science engineer, sotware designer, technical writer, and IT business analyst or Texas Instruments, FedEx, Lucent Technologies, and BMC Sotware. Her love o math and geometry naturally drew her to the art orm o Zentangle. voracious reader, she also writes oetry and creative non-iction, develos Bible studies or her church, and enjoys time with her beloved Shih Tzu, Lollio. Christina created Dove o Peace or a Father s Day card and letter which she gave to her ather shortly beore his death. These gits roted him to share with her he had studied drawing as a child. lack o conidence led him to abandon his art, which thenceorth ound exression only in his strikingly elegant handwriting. Christina s drawing and her ather s story are riceless testaments to the hoe and aith they shared. To see more o Christina s art, visit YOUR DIGITL EDITION LICENSE PPERS HERE. IF BOX IS EMPTY, THIS N UNLICENSED COPY OF THE SCORE.

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Selected Choral Music by Elizabeth lexander ril Rain Song (Langston Hughes) STB............................................... SE-006-01 Blessed Be the Flower That Triuhs (Michael devernon Boblett) STB.

8 Selected Choral Music by Elizabeth lexander ril Rain Song (Langston Hughes) STB SE Blessed Be the Flower That Triuhs (Michael devernon Boblett) STB SE Cherish Your Doubt (lexander) STB & iano / SS & iano SE / SE-06-0 Climb (Edna St. Vincent Millay) STB & iano SE Dragon Dance (Elizabeth lexander) S & iano SE Die Gedanken Sind Frei (15 5h century German rotest song, arr.) STB & iano SE The Earth Called To My Friend (Nancy Wood) SS & iano SE Even a Fist Was Once an Oen Palm (Yehuda michai) STB SE Is the Bird That Feels the Light (Rabindranath Tagore) SS SE Fighting Over What We Believe (lexander) SB youth choir, STB & iano SE Finally On My Way To Yes (Pesha Gertler) SSTB & iano SE Folks, I m Telling You (Langston Hughes) SSTB & iano SE For So the Children Come (Sohia Fahs) STB & iano SE Glen Song (Scott Bates) SSTB & iano SE Go Out! (John Murray) STB & iano SE I Write This Poem Out o Darkness (George Ella Lyon) SS, lute, violin & iano SE I You Can Walk You Can Dance (Zimbabwean Proverb) SB & iano / TTB & iano.. SE-0-0 / SE-0-05 Immortal Love (John Greenlea Whittier) STB SE Inant Holy, Inant Lowly (arr. Polish carol) SS SE The Journey (Evelyn Dudley) TTBB / STB SE / SE Ju! (Ray Bradbury) SS & string quartet SE Lie is not a Garden (lexander) STB & iano SE May This Be a Working lleluia (lexander) Children s choir, STB & iano (ot. lute & truets). SE Morning Bread (my Lowell) STB SE or a musician (Phili Dacey) STB & orchestra SE Palette To Paint Us s We re (Gerald Rich) S & iano / STB & iano SE / SE Praise Wet Snow Falling Early (Denise Levertov) STB & iano SE Reasons or the Peretuation o Slavery (lexander) SS SE Sring Grass (Carl Sandburg) STB SE They Have Freckles Everywhere (lexander) SS & iano SE Those Who Wish For To erusal Sing lways Find only, a Song (Swedish roverb) SSS, oboe & iano SE-0-01 To Make a Prairie (Emily Dickinson) SS & iano SE Tomorrow, God Willing you (Garrison betcha! Keillor) TTBB SE Trust the Seeds (lexander) STB SE We Lit U Our Hearts (Richard Fewkes) Children s choir, STB & iano SE We Remember Them (Sylvan Kamens & Jack Riemer) STB & iano SE Where There Is Light in the Soul (Chinese roverb) SB/STB SE / SE When the Song o the ngels Is Stilled (Howard Thurman) SS / TTBB SE / SE-06-0 Why I Pity the Woman Who Never Sills (Joan Wol Preontaine) SS SE Seaarer Press For more inormation about these and over 100 other titles, visit Seaarer Press ~ YOUR DIGITL EDITION LICENSE PPERS HERE. IF BOX IS EMPTY, THIS N UNLICENSED COPY OF THE SCORE.

SEA African-American Spiritual. SA children s choir, soprano or tenor soloist, and piano. Elizabeth Alexander.

SEA African-American Spiritual. SA children s choir, soprano or tenor soloist, and piano. Elizabeth Alexander. E01800 2.00 Children, Go Where I end Thee fricanmerican piritual children s choir, soprano or tenor soloist, and piano Elizabeth lexander eafarer Press www.seafarerpress.com Children, Go Where I end Thee