Manitou Singers, St Olaf College

First Song: O Frondens Virga by Bigen (1098-1179) Translation: O verdent branch, standing in your nobility as dawn advances: now rejoice and be glad and deem us, helpless ones, worthy of freeing us from evil habits and even stretch forth your hand to lift us up.
Second Song: You Are the Music by Joan Szymko 'Tis you that are the music, not your song. The song is but a door which, opening wide, lets forth the pent-up melody inside, Your spirit's harmony, which clear and strong sings but of you. Throughout your whole life long your songs, your thoughts, your doings, each divide this perfect beauty; waves within a tide, or single notes amid a glorious throng. The song of earth has many different chords; Ocean has many moods and many tones yet always ocean. In the damp Spring woods the painted trillium smiles, while crisp pine cones autumn alone can ripen. So is this one music with a thousand cadences.
Third Song: Joy by Jocelyn Hagen I am wild, I will sing to the trees, I will sing to the stars in the sky, I love, I am loved, he is mine, Now at last I can die! I am sandaled with wind and flame, I have heart-fire and singing to give, I can tread on the grass or the stars, now at last I can live!

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[cellorocker14]

Oh man, I wish you could have put up the Betinis piece. That one was crazy!