This is the day

(2021)

for SATB choir

Written for Rupert Gough and the Choir of Royal Holloway, as part of the 2021-22 Composer-in-Residency.

  • Choir of Royal Holloway and Rupert Gough on 28 April 2021 at Chapel of Royal Holloway Univeristy, as part of their Midweek Music series

  • SATB choir

  • 3’

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text

After Psalm 117 (118): 24

Alleluia, Laudate dominum,

Haec dies quam fecit Dominus.

This is the day
for peace,
for reflection,
for love.

Exultemus et laetemur in ea.

This is the day
for joy,
for them,
for us,
for you.

Alleluia, Laudate dominum.