Roger Dean Publishing
15/2425R, SATB/SATB a cappella, $3.80
 
“This Moment” is a tone poem, written for unaccompanied mixed double choirs. The original text by Hayes calls the listener to “be in the moment” and to discover all the beauty, power and magic that awaits us when we are open to it. The piece begins quietly in A minor, rather plaintively with a simple melody introduced by Choir I. Choir II answers the initial statement in Latin with a chant like response. Hayes incorporates Latin translations of the English text throughout, both sung and whispered. The piece slowly builds in sonority and harmonic complexity, trading melodic phrases between the choirs, climaxing with the text, “I am alive to the power of this moment, open wide to the beauty, to possibility, to mystery, to infinity, to divinity.” Hayes concludes the piece in quietness, much as he started, with lush chords framing the phrase ”in silentio” while the sopranos whisper into the stillness. This work will beautifully showcase the nuance and dynamic range of your choir.
 
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