Product Description
This instrumental piece is based on my "Christmas Song" - a meditation on finding the Christ child within oneself
Versions for choir and guitar, choir and piano, alto saxophone and guitar, clarinet and guitar, flute and guitar, flute and piano, clarinet and piano, alto clarinet and piano, alto sax and piano and the original version for alto voice and guitar are also available here.
The pdf file contains the score and separate parts The sound sample is an electronic preview.
Poem by Audrey Vaughan
I sought him where the marble shone
and rang with singing echoes
to the hurrying prelates' feet
and found him not
I sought him where the golden glow
and painted heav'n-eyed saints adorn
the sleeping altars
and found him not
I sought him where all nature's
beauty burned
with autumn leaves afire
with death against the long blue sky
and found him not
I sought him down the stone sett streets
dull beneath the misty rain
which closed the surrounding hills
and found him not
I sought him in the eyes of strangers
bright with giving thoughts
and in the hearts of friends
but found him not
I sought him
him whom I loved
in ev'ry thing I loved
in my own heart's loving
but this night I found him not
I found him not
but still I sought him
this gurgling boy of joy
but where?
the dark sky all above
and round me
like a suffocating empty cloak
took time away
my thoughts away
my search away
and the peace of emptiness of self
opened the low brown door
and there his newness tiny lay
deep in the shriven hollow
of my heart
cradled there
I found him
©Audrey Vaughan
The words of the original song can be heard performed on Youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQfRYqYAB3I
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