Composer: Nicholas WeiningerDetailsFormat: Mixed Choir - 4 voicesVoicing: SATBIncidental Divisi: S, A, T, BAccompaniment: unaccompaniedNotation: standardPerformance Length: 2:30 Study Scores & Audio FilesStudy Score & Audio Order Printed ScoresOrder site / Alternate source of score: nicholasweininger.com Texts & TranslationsLanguage(s): EnglishText Source: Gerard Manley HopkinsText: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is — Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces. Programming AidsPerformance Difficulty: difficultDescriptive Terms: lifeenergyupbeatAllow Excerpts: Composition is a single movementComposer’s Notes: This Brittenesque, mixed meter heavy, rhythmically driving, exuberant setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sonnet is one of my most ambitious pieces, yet carefully engineered to be reasonably easy to sightread and a joy to sing. IOCSF premiered this piece in June 2016.Premier Conductor's Notes: June 11, 2016, IOCSF, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA Additional InformationDate of Completion: February, 2016Date of First Performance: Saturday, June 4, 2016Premier Performance Data: International Orange Chorale of San Francisco (Zane Fiala, cond), All Souls Episcopal Parish, Berkeley, CA