SKU: HL.48025402

UPC: 196288201038.

Short motet commissioned by St DominicÂ’s Sixth Form College, Harrow-on-the-Hill, UK, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. MacMillan chose a text which is entirely appropriate to young people about to be let loose on the world to fulfil their potential: 'Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire'. But where another composer might have made this a fanfare MacMillan writes with the gentleness of sincerity. The music is very straightforward and in wanting a solo soprano line he outlines all the ways this can be achieved: soloist, group of sopranos, or all the sopranos if the altos can be split into two. The choir repeats the mantra text above throughout the motet, while the soprano solo line is given the prayer which follows. Only at the very end do they all join together in the words 'Jesus, love, Jesus, love' with a lovely E major ending.

SKU: C4.9790902260459

ISBN 9790902260459. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Australian poet James McAuley's visceral text is joined here in perfect marriage with Brooke Shelley's imaginative and shapely setting. The work was commissioned by St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney for the concert Gul Gul Dja Mardji: Long is the Journey, 9 December, 2017.