Work
Shine Out, Fair Sun
for SATB choir and piano
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About
The poem Shine Out, Fair Sun is generally deemed to be by an anonymous author, although it has also been credited to George Chapman (1559? - 1634). It contrasts the heat and light of the sun with the winter landscape, calling on the sun to '...make this winter night our beauty's Spring'.
Commissioned note
Written for Choralation, the mixed-voice choir of Westlake Girls' and Westlake Boys' High Schools, and conductor Rowan Johnston
Text note
Anonymous text
Performance history
Performed by Choralation conducted by Rowan Johnston