Of Fire and Form by Evan Mack

Friday Night Premiere by the WV ACDA Collegiate Honors Choir "Of Fire and Form" by Evan Mack. Dr. Tim Sharp conducting. Jan Corrothers, accompanist.

A collection was taken for the Big Branch Mine Disaster:

Text of music:
Translated and inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses:
Most beings spring from other individuals
But there's a certain kind that reproduces itself
It's called the Phoenix.
A spirit proudly willing to burn so it may live again
Dives to the depths of the earth in search for the eternal flame.
Up from the ashes, it soars to amazing heights and is reborn by the sunlight.




Sun, glorious Sun, Make me young and strong again!
Nothing retains the shape of what it was.
Nature always makes old things new.
Nothing dies in this world.
It simply takes another form.
Birth is change from what we were.
Death is change from what it was.
Though all things melt or grow the balance of the world remains.

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• Tim Sharp