Written by Hoagy Carmichael
Arr. Kyle Stocker and Rory Creigh
Vocals: Kyle Stocker
Piano: Anna Muhich
Guitar: Rory Creigh
Mixed by Andrew Aguilar and Rory Creigh
Vinyl Frontier Records

The Nearness Of You

Me reading a Captain America picture book.

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Renouncement is about falling out of love and then back in love again. The rhythmic intensity of the first half reflects the poet's anxious struggle to forget her former lover. The second half is slow and confessional, ending in a celebration of reconciled love and devotion.

Written by Kyle Stocker

Performed by Auburn Riverside High School Symphonic Choir. Director, Jon Stenson.

Recorded and produced by Bryce Publow.

Text: 

From “Renouncement” by Alice Meynell

        I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong,
	I shun the thought that lurks in all delight—
	The thought of thee—and in the blue Heaven’s height,
	And in the sweetest passage of a song.

	Oh, just beyond the fairest thoughts that throng
	This breast, the thought of thee waits, hidden yet bright;
	But it must never, never come in sight;
	I stop short of thee the whole day long.

	But when sleep comes to close each day,
	And all my bonds I loose apart,
	I doff my will as raiment laid away,—
	I run, I run, I gather to they heart.

	-Text adapted by Kyle Stocker


From “The Kiss” by Sara Teasdale

        I am my love’s and he is mine forever,
	Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore—
	Think you I could let a beggar enter
	Where a king stood before?

	-Text adapted by Kyle Stocker

Renouncement SATB

Renouncement is about falling out of love and then back in love again. The rhythmic intensity of the first half reflects the poet's anxious struggle to forget her former lover. The second half is slow and confessional, ending in a celebration of reconciled love and devotion.

Written by Kyle Stocker

Performed by Auburn Riverside High School Symphonic Choir. Director, Jon Stenson.

Recorded and produced by Bryce Publow.

Text:

From “Renouncement” by Alice Meynell

I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong,
I shun the thought that lurks in all delight—
The thought of thee—and in the blue Heaven’s height,
And in the sweetest passage of a song.

Oh, just beyond the fairest thoughts that throng
This breast, the thought of thee waits, hidden yet bright;
But it must never, never come in sight;
I stop short of thee the whole day long.

But when sleep comes to close each day,
And all my bonds I loose apart,
I doff my will as raiment laid away,—
I run, I run, I gather to they heart.

-Text adapted by Kyle Stocker

From “The Kiss” by Sara Teasdale

I am my love’s and he is mine forever,
Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore—
Think you I could let a beggar enter
Where a king stood before?

-Text adapted by Kyle Stocker

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