Name: High Flight by Jon F. Howe Vocal Solo Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Jon F. Howe
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High Flight
by Jon F. Howe Vocal Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title High Flight

Artist Jon F. Howe

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Jon F. Howe

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 14

Arrangement Vocal Solo

Publisher Jon F. Howe

Level 4

Product ID 1017933

Genre Sacred Concert Contemporary Standards

Instruments Tenor Voice

Product Description

Program Notes

"High Flight is a popular poem for aviators and astronauts alike, and is also the official poem of the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force. Portions of the poem frequently appear on the headstones of Arlington National Cemetary. A powerful poem written only a few months before John Gillespie Magee Jr.'s death in December of 1941, High Flight is about spirituality and escaping the bounds of Earth and flying higher than ever before thanks to the invention of the airplane. Rather than warning man of their hubris, such as in the story of Daedalus and Icarus, this poem celebrates exploring the unknown and flying to the skies' limits. My musical setting attempts to bring these ideas to life. This was written for and is dedicated to my friend, Brendon Lewis."

High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr. 1941
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward Ive climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovring there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew
And, while with silent, lifting mind Ive trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Duration 4 minutes.

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