Spring Concert 2025 – The Gift to Sing
The Gift To Sing
Sometimes the mist overhangs my path,
And blackening clouds about me cling;
But, oh, I have a magic way
To turn the gloom to cheerful day—
I softly sing.
And if the way grows darker still,
Shadowed by Sorrow’s somber wing,
With glad defiance in my throat,
I pierce the darkness with a note,
And sing, and sing.
I brood not over the broken past,
Nor dread whatever time may bring;
No nights are dark, no days are long,
While in my heart there swells a song,
And I can sing.
James Weldon Johnson, 1871 – 1938
(This poem is in the public domain.)
Don’t miss our Spring concert for 2025, featuring a newly commissioned setting from composer Jonathan Woody of this uplifting poem by James Weldon Johnson. The program also includes Stephen Paulus’ setting of “The Road Home” by the American poet Michael Dennis Browne, which was performed in January at the funeral service for President Jimmy Carter.
- Sunday, March 23, 2025
- St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT at 3:00 PM
- Tickets available here: tickets
The commission project is supported in part by an Alfred Nash Patterson Grant from Choral Arts New England.
