ME = Moderately Easy
M = Medium
MD = Moderately Difficult
D = Difficult
For So the Children Come (Sophia Fahs)
SATB, piano - SEA-010-00 - $2.50/copy5 minutes - MD "I heard plenty of wonderful music between Thanksgiving and Twelfth Night, as I usually do. For So the Children Come was the most personally moving piece I encountered." -Broad Street Review (Philadelphia) "The close personal resonance between the composer and the words of Fahs is apparent in [this] skillfully worked out setting for choir and piano... Alexander cleverly quotes appropriate carol melodies when Fahs refers to the prophets and the wise men, and...the opening downward arpeggios seem to symbolize the perpetual descent of the divine at each and every birth." -Watson Bosler, Notes for Gregg Smith Singers Concert (New York, NY)
A moving celebration of new life on a poem by Sophia Fahs, appropriate for sacred or secular performances during the Christmas season, or as a celebration of birth. The atmospheric opening, full of mystery and timelessness, alternates with a joyful Latin dance whose vibrancy is enhanced by mixed meter and piquant harmonies.
A challenging work requiring a strong pianist and a rhythmically clear conductor, and featuring an etherial soprano solo.
For So the Children Come - Score
For So the Children Come
For so the children come
And so they have been coming.
Always in the same way they come
born of the seed of man and woman.
No angels herald their beginnings.
No prophets predict their future courses.
No wisemen see a star to show where to find the babe
that will save humankind.
Yet each night a child is born is a holy night,
Fathers and mothers--
sitting beside their children's cribs
feel glory in the sight of a new life beginning.
They ask, "Where and how will this new life end?
Or will it ever end?"
Each night a child is born is a holy night--
A time for singing,
A time for wondering,
A time for worshipping.
Copyright by Unitarian-Universalist Association. Reprinted by permission.
For so the children come
And so they have been coming.
Always in the same way they come
born of the seed of man and woman.
No angels herald their beginnings.
No prophets predict their future courses.
No wisemen see a star to show where to find the babe
that will save humankind.
Yet each night a child is born is a holy night,
Fathers and mothers--
sitting beside their children's cribs
feel glory in the sight of a new life beginning.
They ask, "Where and how will this new life end?
Or will it ever end?"
Each night a child is born is a holy night--
A time for singing,
A time for wondering,
A time for worshipping.
Copyright by Unitarian-Universalist Association. Reprinted by permission.
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