Soprano voice solo, SATB choir, and piano (E-flat Soprano saxophone, 2 Horns in ...(+)
Soprano voice solo, SATB
choir, and piano (E-flat
Soprano saxophone, 2
Horns in F, Piano, Organ
(or digital keyboard),
Double String Quartet,
Double Bass) - Early
Intermediate
SKU:
MN.56-0108
Composed
by Howard Goodall. Lent,
Holy Week, Triduum/Three
Days, Tenebrae, 21st
Century. Score &
instrument parts.
Duration 6 minutes, 19
seconds. MorningStar
Music Publishers
#56-0108. Published by
MorningStar Music
Publishers (MN.56-0108).
UPC: 688670221255.
English, Latin. Psalms
142; Jeremiah 3:48, 52,
56.
Invictus: A
Passion addresses one of
the world’s most
powerful stories through
the lens of the modern
world. The texts, written
or inspired by women,
describe not only human
suffering and persecution
but also the human
capacity for love and
humility in the face of
tyranny. Composer Howard
Goodall is uniquely
suited to bring these
texts to life with music
of emotional clarity and
sweeping force. This
excerpt is scored for
soprano solo, SATB choir
and piano. This fourth
movement of the larger
work is inspired by the
extraordinary story of
Irena Sendler née
Krzyżanowska, a Polish
nurse and head of
Żegota, the Polish
Council to Aid Jews in
the Second World War,
whose personal
interventions saved the
lives of approximately
2,500 Jewish children in
the Warsaw Ghetto,
smuggling them to safety,
acts of humanitarian
bravery that eventually
caused her arrest and
torture by the Gestapo.
She is honoured as
Righteous Amongst the
Nations at Yad Vashem,
Jerusalem. The Latin
texts of this movement
are taken from the Book
of Lamentations
(“My eye hath run
down with streams of
water, for the
destruction of the
daughter of my people. My
enemies have chased me
and caught me like a
bird, without
cause…â€) and
from Psalm 142, the Old
Testament being the
meeting-point of
Sendler’s
Catholicism and the
Jewish tradition of those
whose lives she saved.
Duration 6:19.
