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Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs (Michael de Vernon Boblett)
SATB a cappella - SEA-078-00 - $3.00/copy5 minutes - M
SATB, chamber orchestra (2 hn, harp, strings)
8 minutes - M
SEA-078-01 - $9.00/full score
SEA-078-02 - $3.00/choral score
SEA-078-03 - part rental (contact Seafarer Press for price)
Commissioned by Bethlehem Music Series, Maria Bucka artistic director Winner of the Athena Festival Almquist Award
"Love-In-a-Mist (Nigella)" Photo by Ellen Wold. Reprinted by permission of the artist. All rights reserved.
A warm and richly contrapuntal meditation on the true meaning of resurrection: that which returns and prevails despite persecution or death. Michael de Vernon Boblett's poem, which pays homage to a small but tenacious wildflower, offers a dialogue between the grand and the humble, the temporal and the enduring, the merely factual and the True.
Note: The orchestral version of Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs was commissioned to be performed on the same concert as the Fauré Requiem, and has the same instrumentation as the John Rutter edition of that work (with the omission of the organ).
SATB & orchestra - Score
SATB a cappella - Recording
Murray State University Choir; Bradley Almquist, conductor
SATB and orchestra - Recording (7 MB)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church Choir (Minneapolis, MN); David Mennicke, conductor
Murray State University Choir; Bradley Almquist, conductor
SATB and orchestra - Recording (7 MB)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church Choir (Minneapolis, MN); David Mennicke, conductor
Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs At Last
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over snows, over thorns, over withered stems,
Over windswept mountains, over deserts cruel and dry.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over wars, over change, over centuries,
Over barbed wire fences, over soldiers' heavy feet.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over well-meaning hands bent on gathering.
Over small closed rooms, with their vases hard and cold.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over vain words of priests and of poets pens
And attempts to domesticate its wild, wild Truth.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over past, over death, over silences,
Enduring beyond iron and tears and severed roots,
And restoring to all things a joyful smallness.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs at last.
Lyric © 2008 by Elizabeth Alexander. Original poem © 2007 by Michael deVernon Boblett. Used by permission of the authors. All rights reserved.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over snows, over thorns, over withered stems,
Over windswept mountains, over deserts cruel and dry.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over wars, over change, over centuries,
Over barbed wire fences, over soldiers' heavy feet.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over well-meaning hands bent on gathering.
Over small closed rooms, with their vases hard and cold.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over vain words of priests and of poets pens
And attempts to domesticate its wild, wild Truth.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs
Over past, over death, over silences,
Enduring beyond iron and tears and severed roots,
And restoring to all things a joyful smallness.
Blessed be the flower that triumphs at last.
Lyric © 2008 by Elizabeth Alexander. Original poem © 2007 by Michael deVernon Boblett. Used by permission of the authors. All rights reserved.
Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs (SATB a cappella) - score SATB and orchestra - score
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