Words: Kendyl Gibbons
Music: Jason Shelton

With the FUUN Chamber Choir and friends
Kevin Madill (keys)
Jordan Perlson (drums)
Tim Marks (bass)

Life Calls Us On

A setting of Langston Hughes' poems, "Harlem" and "Dreams"

performed by the Atlanta Master Chorale under the direction of Dr. Eric Nelson

2016 Season Premiere: Dreamers of Dreams

Dreams: a recitative and aria for SATB chorus

This song is part of a larger choral work I co-wrote with Thom Schuyler. Thanks to Nathan Young for this heart-felt demo. Here is the lyric for the 2nd verse (not yet recorded on this demo) of Thom's moving lyric:

  Sadness in the streets - I - walk - down - 
  trouble everywhere - I turn.
  And mourning in the hearts of - those - 
  broken and bruised - in this life.
  All through the night on this bed I lay
  And long for the light of a brand new day;
  But I know there's a city where the sun never sets
  And every tear’s wiped away.

Life Calls Us On

Jason Shelton UU Music

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