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• Choir: The Girl Choir of South Florida
• Piece: The Seeds of Stars
• Composer:  Bob Chilcott
• Conductor:  Wallis Peterson
• Voices:  SATB
• Sheet Music:   www.sheetmusicplus.com/ti...  
• Genres: Contemporary
• "The Seeds of Stars" by Bob Chilcott. Text by Charles Bennett. Written for the 2011 combined choir of Festival 500 in Newfoundland, Canada.
  
  Recorded live on May 3, 2015, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed ...  more"The Seeds of Stars" by Bob Chilcott. Text by Charles Bennett. Written for the 2011 combined choir of Festival 500 in Newfoundland, Canada.
  
  Recorded live on May 3, 2015, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir and Men's Auxiliary ensembles of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese.
  
  
  Stars that spill on a melting stem
  of brilliance down to earth,
  make landfall here like swans
  who are burnt by flight.
  
  We find an orphan of ashes,
  a child of chilled obsidian:
  in the middle of winter we nurture
  the seeds of stars.
  
  On days of silver light
  at the end of summer,
  they’ll lift away to resume
  their long migration.
  
  You who’ve been told
  There’s nothing, nothing to be done,
  you who have come to a place
  of broken stones,
  
  remember us
  who have sparked a star from dust,
  and seen its wings ignite
  the darkling sky.  less