Recorded on Night Music.
Envelope contains
1 choral/orchestra score (facsimile – used by PRH)
13 choral/orchestral scores (facsimiles)
1 percussion score
First performed on the occasion of the National Convention of the Association of Anglican Musicians in Seattle, June 15, 1992.
Lyrics
Reader: How silent the departure of the sun sliding in its ecliptic yielding to the moon—pale & regal in her splendor.
Choir: “Who calls”? Silence.
Reader: A night dream is a day dream is a life dream is a river—bearing us silently. A day dream is a night dream is an empty tale.
Choir/baritone solo: Frail music drowns in heavy holiness. Who calls
Reader: We cannot stay. Time—(that indifferent helmsman) claims us for some other shore. To linger is to drift—aimlessly stealing memories of love—(perhaps) which bound us once, but bind no more.
Choir: darkness, bending pale light to distant solitude. Who calls
Reader: Now, in this blending light, ‘twixt day and night, comes fragile music across the distant holy solitude.
Choir: longing to stay bound by love but bound no more
