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- Cheryl Frances-Hoad
The Promised Light of Life (2015)
- Cadenza Music (World)
For Opus Anglicanum at Christmas.
- ct+2T+Bar+B
- 4 min
- Bede/The Revelation of St. John the Divine.
- 20th December 2024, Wigmore Hall , London, United Kingdom
Programme Note
Text
Christus est stella matutína, qui nocte saéculi transácta, lucem vitae sanctis prómittit, et pandit aetérnam.*
(Christ is the morning star, who when the night of this world has passed, brings to his saints the promised light of life, and opens to them everlasting day. Amen)
I am the bright and the morning star**
*From St Bede, Commentary on the Apocalypse)
**From The Revelation of St John the Divine
Commissioned by Opus Anglicanum and premiered by the group at the Haslemere Museum, 12th December 2015.
Christus est stella matutína, qui nocte saéculi transácta, lucem vitae sanctis prómittit, et pandit aetérnam.*
(Christ is the morning star, who when the night of this world has passed, brings to his saints the promised light of life, and opens to them everlasting day. Amen)
I am the bright and the morning star**
*From St Bede, Commentary on the Apocalypse)
**From The Revelation of St John the Divine
Commissioned by Opus Anglicanum and premiered by the group at the Haslemere Museum, 12th December 2015.