SATB div.
Mystical, flowing contemplation of life and afterlife.
I Cantori, Walla Walla University, conducted by Dr. Kraig Scott
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PROGRAM NOTE
This piece follows the tradition of hymns and spirituals such as “Shall We Gather At The River, “ “Deep River,” and “When Peace, Like a River.” The river of your life gathers streams of memory and experience as it flows. People and ideas from your past and your present all exist together in your conscious and unconscious mind. The music for “River” grows from a contemplative dream state, that place where dreaming and wakefulness exist together. The underlying gentle wave patterns and ripples of sound come from that feeling of floating, completely carried and supported by the river, but always in motion. In rhythmic and harmonic structure, it is the calm, deep river that runs through the valley, the mature river that has already passed the rapids and turbulence of its beginnings.
~Reginald Unterseher
Rivers have always been meeting places. They are a symbol of something both permanent and ever changing. The dream imagery in these lyrics is the outline of journey where even the solid ground of a meadow dances.
~Sheila Dunlop
RIVER
Just below senses
the river flows
boundless
We know it in dreams
wake to fading memory
with fresh tears
The river
the home of dreams
where all those we love
gather
The meadow
of sentient immortal flowers
Colors impossible
Beings both here and gone
Air infused with wisdom
The river flows
boundless
bringing us home
—S. K. Dunlop