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10 Sue On This Shining Night Sue on this shining night Of stamade shadows ound, Kindness must watch fo me This side the gound The late yea lies down the noth All is healed, all is health High summe holds the eath Heats all whole Sue on this shining night weep fo wonde Wand' ing fa alone Of shadows on the stas James Agee Copyight 1968 by The James Agee Tust Fom Noctunes, The Ameican Choal Diectos Association 2005 Raymond W Bock Memoial Commission Pemiee pefomance of the Noctunes at the 2005 ACDA National Convention by the Donald Binega Singes and Moten Lauidsen, piano oiginally composed Sue On This Shining Night as the thid movement fo my choal cycle Noctunes on poems by Rilke, Neuda and Agee set the vese vey much like a song fom the Ameican musical theate stage and it should be sung in that manne The fist thee NoctunesSa Nuit d'ete (RM Rilke), Soneto de a Noche (Pablo Neuda) and Sue On This Shining Jl{ightmay be pefomed eithe sepaately o as a cycle (in that ode and including the Epilogue) The Epilogue Voici le soi, is only to be pefomed if the entie cycle is done, following Sue On This Shining Night n that case, the final chod of Sue On This Shining Night is held with a femata and then the chous begins the Epilogue without a beak between these two movements n addition to the oiginal SATB/piano and TTBB/piano vesions, Sue On This Shining Night is also available as a duet fo sopano/mezzosopano and teno/baitone with piano and as a solo song fo baitone and piano combined with Dana Gioia's "Paye," published by Peemusic as "Two Songs on Ameican Poems" The complete Noctunes ae ecoded on Sue On This Shining Night Voce Sings Lauidsen and on Lauidsen MidWinte Songs by The Singes Minnesota Choal Atists, both accompanied by the compose at the piano Moten Lauidsen The music of Moten Lauidsen, Distinguished Pofesso of Composition at the Univesity of Southen Califonia Thonton School of Music, occupies a pemanent place in the standad vocal epetoie of the TwentyFist Centuy He was ComposeinResidence of the Los Angeles Maste Choale fom and is cuently Honoay Atistic Pesident of NTERKULTURfWold Choi Games His woks, including eight vocal cycles and a seies of saced motets, ae egulaly pefomed thoughout the wold and have been ecoded on ove 200 CDs, seveal of which have eceived Gammy nominations An awadwinning documentay by filmmake Michael Stillwate, Shining Night A Potait of Compose Moten Lauidsen, was eleased in 2012 nfomation about the film is at songwithoutbodesnet Named an "Ameican Choal Maste" by the National Endowment fo the Ats in 2005, he was awaded the 2007 National Medal of Ats, the highest atistic awad in the United States, by the Pesident in a White House ceemony "fo his composition of adiant choal woks combining musical beauty, powe, and spiitual depth" Fo moe about Moten Lauidsen wwwpeemusicclassicalcom wwwmotenlauidsennet