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Choral
Poem of the Innocent: A Choral Setting with Chamber Orchestra of Texts from Rwanda in Memory of the 1994 Genocide
SATB chorus, chamber orchestra*
Theme: Peace and Reconciliation; Collaboration; Multicultural/Africa
Year Written: 2014
Duration: 22:00
DEVELOPED BY DUMASTAR
Commissioned By
The Charles Sigmund Fund of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis
Premiered By
The First Unitarian Church Society of Minneapolis Orchestra and Chorus, 2014
Text: Derick Burleson; Immaculée Ilibagiza; St. Francis; Rwandan Youth
Dear Lord, come into my life and take my pain.
I abandon it all to you:
every sorrow and sadness, every hurt,
every doubt and every tear.
I hand you my heartache.
Fill me with your love.
*Instrumentation: 2,1,1,1/1,1,0,0/ perc/strings
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