Move Eastward, Happy Earth
SATB choral/organ score
PEL2093-Choir and Organ
A WORK FOR SATB CHOIR AND ORGAN
A composition expressing the cheerful yet inexorable movement of the planet and its sister moon through the cycle of sunset, dusk, and starry night, toward the happy, bright morning of marriage. The text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, celebrates his anticipation of his own wedding day.
Composed for Elizabeth Kobes Fisher and Nicholas Charles Daborn Halley in honour of their wedding, December 31, 2014.
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Notes
Included in the Pelagosmusic recording "In The Wide Awe And Wisdom", with Keramion Singers, directed by Paul Halley (PEL1006).
Texts
Move Eastward, Happy Earth
Words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Music: Paul Halley (1952 - )
Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
Yon orange sunset waning slow:
From fringes of the faded eve,
O, happy planet, eastward go:
Till over thy dark shoulder glow
Thy silver sister world, and rise
To glass herself in dewey eyes
That watch me from the glen below.
Ah, bear me with thee, lightly borne,
Dip forward under starry light,
And move me to my marriage-morn,
And round again to happy night.
Reviews
"This is the best piece Paul Halley has ever written." - Liz and Nick
