Where Silence Echoes
For brass quintet and wind ensemble
Grade 3.5 - 6 minutes
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Where Silence Echoes is a cleansing prayer for those who have unjustly lost their lives. The work exists in two forms – the first for brass quintet and ensemble, the second for choir and ensemble. Choral parts have text taken from the sonnets of forgotten Australian author Zora Cross. Cross’s sonnets were first published in a book entitled “Songs of Love and Life” in 1917. Australian soldiers were known to quote from the sonnets in letters home to their wives and sweethearts. In Zora’s words I found the respite that I believe the many tortured souls of the Earth may seek:
In me, there is a vast and lonely place,
Where none, not even you, have in sight.
A wide, still vale of solitude and light,
Where Silence echoes into ebbing space.
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So do we rise, Beloved, you and I
Up from the earth to which our reasons cling,
Mounting the airy pathways of the night,
When Heaven’s hosannas fill the flaming sky
And while our thoughts among the meadows sing
We, with our God, dissolve at last in light.
“Where silence echoes” is an offering to the universe, a call for those who have passed in fear to rise from the earth and be amongst the meadows, so that they, at last, may dissolve in light.
BUY in AUSTRALIA
Proudly distributed throughout Australia/NZ by Brolga Music.
BUY in US/CANADA
Proudly distributed throughout Canada, North & South America by C. Alan Publications.
NOW in EUROPE
Proudly distributed throughout Europe by Stretta Music
This work was commissioned by Rosemount Community Band, Rosemount, Minnesota
to honour their founding leader and conductor – John Zschunke.
