Nativity
Instrumentation: Countertenor and Organ Completed: May, 2008 Dedicated to: Daniel Cabena Duration: 5 minutes Text: the third sonnet of La Corona by John Donne (1572-1631) Premiered: July 15, 2008 by Daniel Cabena, countertenor, and Tim Pyper, organ |
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Daniel Cabena, countertenor; Tim Pyper, organ
Text
Immensity, cloister’d in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-beloved imprisonment.
There he hath made himself to his intent
Weak enough, now into our world to come.
But O ! for thee, for Him, hath th’ inn no room?
Yet lay Him in this stall, and from th’ orient,
Stars, and wise men will travel to prevent
The effects of Herod’s jealous general doom.
See’st thou, my soul, with thy faith’s eye, how He
Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie?
Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high,
That would have need to be pitied by thee?
Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,
With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.
Performances (3)
| July 15, 2008, 4:30 pm (premiere) | Daniel Cabena, countertenor; Tim Pyper, organ Dublin St. United Methodist Church, Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| August 19, 2008, 12:15 pm | Steven Serpa, countertenor; Heinrich Christensen, organ King's Chapel, Boston, MA |
| April 7, 2010 | Emilie Simoneau, mezzo-soprano; Tim Pyper, organ Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |