Joel.2

SUNSET SONG

written for 2016 TMEA Region 22 Middle School All-Region Choir of El Paso Texas

Silent shimmers catch my eye

Evening sun languid and low in the sky.

A throw of

THE STAR

I think God sang when He had made A bough of apple bloom,

And placed it close against the sky To whiten in the gloom.

But, oh, when He had hung a

TO HOME Deep as the sea and boundless as the night-time

Home its every echo embraces firm and fast

Images of childhood and reflections of the past

Mirrors of the memories and the

WHO IS SHE? was written in 2010 for a campaign honoring inspiring women for the Ban Righ Foundation of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. This choral version for SSA was written for She Sings!