voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1436 | duration: 1:50 | price: $2.05
accompaniment: a cappella

Composed in the style of a Sacred Harp piece, this one really cooks. The melody lies in the tenor, and can be doubled at the octave as can the soprano part, thereby creating a delightful six parts. The Wendell Berry text ends “and all the earth shall sing.” May it be so!


Salt Lake Vocal Artists - Dr. Brady R. Allred, conductor [© all rights reserved]

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The dark around us, come,
Let us meet here together,
Members one of another,
Here in our holy room,

Here on our little floor,
Here in the daylit sky,
Rejoicing mind and eye,
Rejoining known and knower,

Light, leaf, foot, hand, and wing,
Such order as we know,
One household, high and low,
And all the earth shall sing.

by Wendell Berry

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Featured on the following reading sessions
2018 | Dorian Vocal Festival - Luther College, Decorah, IA - 1/15
2017 | Rodney Eichenberger George Fox Univ. & Cannon Beach, OR. Reading Sessions
2017 | ASCI GSU Reading Session - June 26
2017 | AVA Fall Workshop, in Birmingham, AL on 9/8
2017 | California ACDA Northern Region Fall Conference Reading Session
2017 | Summer Reading Session Winnepeg - August 24-26