i thank You God for most this amazing day (2014)
i thank You God for most this amazing day (2014)
Performed by International Orange Chorale
Text by e.e. cummungs
For SATB Chorus
Ninth Biennial Composition Competition
"i thank you God for this most amazing day"
Nicolas Benavides, composer - 1st Prize Winner
www.nickbenavides.com
Text by: e. e. cummings
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping, greenly spirits of trees,
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any - lifted from the no
of all nothing - human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
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Sung by: International Chorale of San Francisco
Zane Fiala, artistic director