voicing: SA | catalog number: SBMP 1366 | duration: 3:45 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: piano

Composer Ramsey again works her magic with this beautiful setting of an imaginative text. Composed as a memorial,the piece can provide an elegant addition to a concert with its soaring choral melodies and tasteful piano accompaniment. [ Errata ]


performance by: The Lawrence Children’s Choir - Janeal Krehbiel, conductor [© all rights reserved]

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CLICK HERE: Read the Text or Poem

If it must be
You speak no more with us,
Nor smile no more with us,
Nor walk no more with us,
Then let us take a patience and a calm.
For even now the green leaf explodes.
Sun lightens stone,
and all the river burns.

Anonymous, from Central America

CLICK HERE: Choral Tracks (Practice made simple)

If It Must Be choral track bundle contains a part dominant track for each voice part, a balanced voices track, and an accompaniment track if the work is not a cappella (the accompaniment is also included with the part dominant and balanced voices track). Get more information and listen to samples HERE. Please note that the choral score is not included in the bundle and needs to be ordered separately.

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