boundless joy

Poet/Lyricist: 

Catherine Dalton

boundless joy attempts to put forth into music the unnamable - that ecstatic joy that can be found in a single moment, maybe if only once in a lifetime.

Premiere: 

Unitarian Universalist Association's General Assembly Minister's Choir, Beth Syverson, director

Level: 

Moderate
Item Voicing Media Price
HSP-108-01A SATB choir and narrator $2.00
HSPD-108-01A
digital download 		SATB choir and narrator $1.20

Text:

boundless joy

this darkness surrounds
and swallows me whole

free of mind,
free of body,
free even of breath

all is joy

boundless joy,
is all
joy,

boundless joy

© 2010 Catherine Dalton

Critical Acclaim: 

"Catherine Dalton's Boundless Joy is transcendent!" #UUsunday #MidAmericaUUA #uunewera2015 - poet@uupoet
Performances

Minister’s Choir, Beth Syverson, conductor, General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association (Minneapolis, MN) - World Premiere

MidAmerica Regional Assembly Choir, Vickie Hellyer, conductor (Naperville IL)

 

 

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