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Sure On This Shining NightSure on this shining nightOf starmade shadows round,Kindness must watch for meThis side the ground.The late year lies down the north.All is healed, all is health.High summer holds the earth.Hearts all whole.Sure on this shining nightI weep for wonderWand' ring far aloneOf shadows on the stars.-James AgeeCopyright 1968 by The James Agee TrustFrom Nocturnes, The American Choral Directors Association2005 Raymond W. Brock Memorial CommissionPremiere performance of the Nocturnes at the 2005 ACDA National Convention by theDonald Brinegar Singers and Morten Lauridsen, pianoI originally composed Sure On This Shining Night as the third movement for my choral cycleNocturnes on poems by Rilke, Neruda and Agee. I set the verse very much like a song from theAmerican musical theater stage and it should be sung in that manner. The first threeNocturnes-Sa Nuit d'Ete (R.M. Rilke), Soneto de Ia Noche (Pablo Neruda) and Sure On ThisShining Jl{ight-may be performed either separately or as a cycle (in that order and includingthe Epilogue). The Epilogue: Voici le soir, is only to be performed if the entire cycle is done,following Sure On This Shining Night. In that case, the final chord of Sure On This Shining Night isheld with a fermata and then the chorus begins the Epilogue without a break between thesetwo movements.In addition to the original SATB/piano and TTBB/piano versions, Sure On This Shining Night isalso available as a duet for soprano/mezzo-soprano and tenor/baritone with piano and as asolo song for baritone and piano combined with Dana Gioia's "Prayer," published by Peermusicas "Two Songs on American Poems." The complete Nocturnes are recorded on Sure On ThisShining Night- Voce Sings Lauridsen and on Lauridsen - Mid-Winter Songs by The Singers Minnesota Choral Artists, both accompanied by the composer at the piano.-Morten LauridsenThe music of Morten Lauridsen, Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University ofSouthern California Thornton School of Music, occupies a permanent place in the standardvocal repertoire of the Twenty-First Century. He was Composer-in-Residence of the LosAngeles Master Chorale from 1994-2001 and is currently Honorary Artistic President ofINTERKULTURfWorld Choir Games. His works, including eight vocal cycles and a series ofsacred motets, are regularly performed throughout the world and have been recorded on over200 CDs, several of which have received Grammy nominations. An award-winningdocumentary by filmmaker Michael Stillwater, Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer MortenLauridsen, was released in 2012. Information about the film is at songwithoutborders.net.Named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005, he wasawarded the 2007 National Medal of Arts, the highest artistic award in the United States, by thePresident in a White House ceremony "for his composition of radiant choral works combiningmusical beauty, power, and spiritual depth."For more about Morten idsen.net

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