I Love All Beauteous Thingsby Judith Weir Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Celebrate HM The Queen's 90th Birthday with your choir
Sing Judith Weirs special new choral piece I Love All Beauteous Things

Master of the Queens Music, Judith Weir, has been commissioned by St Pauls Cathedral in London to write a piece for SATB choir and organ in celebration of HM The Queens 90th birthday in 2016. The piece is now available from Chester Music, so that choirs all over the world can join in with the festivities. Churches and other local organisations are planning events on Sunday 12th June and many may want to include this approachable setting of Robert Bridges poem.

Directed by Andrew Carwood, the St Pauls Cathedral Choir will perform I love all beauteous things as part of the National Service of Thanksgiving which will take place on at 11am on 10 June in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. At the service the Archbishop of Canterbury will give the address and the Prime Minister will read a lesson. The event will be televised live on BBC1.

Judith Weir comments:
"It is a particular honour to contribute new music for this great occasion, and a pleasure to write a choral version of Robert Bridges beautiful verse."

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COMPOSERS NOTE
At the suggestion of Michael Hampel, Precentor of St Pauls Cathedral, I have set words by Robert Bridges, who was Poet Laureate from 19131930. Bridges was an outstanding humanitarian and writer, whose poetry has inspired me before in The Voice of Desire, a song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano. This short, fast-tempo setting aims to emulate the swift, fleet-footed rhyme and metre of the two-verse poem, with its unobtrusive but telling reference to man in his hasty days.
J.W.

Commissioned by the Chapter of St Pauls Cathedral to mark the 90th birthday of HM The Queen, generously supported by the Boltini Trust. Performed at the National Service of Thanksgiving for HM The Queens birthday at St Pauls Cathedral, London, on Friday 10th June 2016 in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
Music by Judith Weir, Master of the Queens Music, words by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate in the year HM The Queen was born.
Duration c. 3½ minutes

I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS
words by Robert Bridges OM (18441930)
Poet Laureate 191330

I love all beauteous things,
I seek and adore them;
God hath no better praise,
And man in his hasty days
Is honoured for them.

I too will something make
And joy in the making;
Altho to-morrow it seem
Like the empty words of a dream
Remembered on waking.

(I love all beauteous things, etc)