The Spacious Firmament 2

Yet we who neither burn nor shine

Vocal score

Forces or Category: SATB & trumpet

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for SATB (with divisions) and trumpet
The Spacious Firmament 2: Yet we who neither burn nor shine is a sequel to The Spacious ...

The Spacious Firmament 2

Yet we who neither burn nor shine

Vocal score

Description

for SATB (with divisions) and trumpet
The Spacious Firmament 2: Yet we who neither burn nor shine is a sequel to The Spacious Firmament. Both pieces may be performed separately, but The Spacious Firmament should always come first if they are programmed together (perhaps either side of an interval). If both pieces are sung, and so two trumpeters are available, it can be very effective if from bar 116 to the end the trumpet part of Yet we who neither burn nor shine is played by a second player offstage, or at a considerable distance from the choir.
Yet we who neither burn nor shine sets beautifully a specially commissioned text by Colin Tan which links in its imagery to the Addison text in The Spacious Firmament. Sensitive melodies eventually give way to a joyous climax, enhanced by the delayed trumpet solo which employs an ecstatic improvisatory passage over the choral lines.

The Spacious Firmament 2

Yet we who neither burn nor shine

Vocal score

Gabriel Jackson

New Horizons

Composer Information

Gabriel Jackson (b.1962)

One of Britain's foremost composers, after three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, Gabriel Jackson went on to study composition with Richard Blackford and John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. Particularly acclaimed for his choral works, his liturgical pieces are in the repertoires of most of Britain's cathedral and collegiate choirs and he is a frequent collaborator with the leading professional groups of the world. From 2010-2013 he was Associate Composer to the BBC Singers. In 2014 his hour-long The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned for the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, was premiered in its chapel. May 2015 saw the premiere at the Latvian National Opera of Spring Rounds for soprano, choir and orchestra, commissioned by the Riga-based youth choir Kamer for their 25th anniversary. He was recently commissioned by The Marian Consort to write Stabat Mater to mark their 10th anniversary.

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