GILDA LYONS
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Prayerfor three unaccompanied voices (2008) Premiere buy the music 19 December 2008 The Phoenix Concerts Church of St. Matthew and Saint Timothy, NYC Ruth Cunningham, Gilda Lyons, and Elaine Valby, voice Instrumentationthree unaccompanied voices
Duration4'
Text ByElizabeth Cunningham
TextPrayer
O Great mystery
take me to the deep place where the root drinks dark water.
Take me to the ocean floor where the currents sway sea forests.
Show me the high places, too, where the eagle rests on wind
and clouds tumble slowly in their hugeness.
O mother father mystery I am a fretful child
flailing in my smallness. Take me to your breast.
Let me ride the swells of your slow, deep breath.
- Elizabeth Cunningham
from Small Bird: Poems and Prayers
by Elizabeth Cunningham ©2000
used with permission.
Program NoteCommissioned by Ruth Cunningham. —
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