Product Description:
PDF score of In the Evening.
Please note: 10 copy minimum. Please purchase one copy per member of your choir.
Please note: 10 copy minimum. Please purchase one copy per member of your choir.
Program Note:
In the Evening sets this beautifully romantic text by poet Fenton Johnson (1888-1958). The piece alternates between homophony and slight syncopation, continually moving forward and building in intensity until the singers rejoin, releasing the tension in the previous lines, to sing the final words, “I am yours, and you are mine.”
Instrumentation:
SATB a cappella choir
Recording:
Score:
Text:
In the Evening
I.
In the evening, love returns,
Like a wand’rer ’cross the sea;
In the evening, love returns
With a violet for me;
In the evening, life’s a song,
And the fields are full of green;
All the stars are golden crowns,
And the eye of God is keen.
II.
In the evening, sorrow dies
With the setting of the sun;
In the evening, joy begins,
When the course of mirth is done;
In the evening, kisses sweet
Droop upon the passion vine;
In the evening comes your voice:
“I am yours, and you are mine.”
- Fenton Johnson (1913)
I.
In the evening, love returns,
Like a wand’rer ’cross the sea;
In the evening, love returns
With a violet for me;
In the evening, life’s a song,
And the fields are full of green;
All the stars are golden crowns,
And the eye of God is keen.
II.
In the evening, sorrow dies
With the setting of the sun;
In the evening, joy begins,
When the course of mirth is done;
In the evening, kisses sweet
Droop upon the passion vine;
In the evening comes your voice:
“I am yours, and you are mine.”
- Fenton Johnson (1913)