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Gather Us In - JSiddons Arr Vc and Piano - Full Score
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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.Composer-musicologist James Siddons created this setting of Marty Haugen's "Gather Us In" (1983) in the summer of 2023.
It seeks to express this stanza: "We are the young, our lives are a mystery; Called to be light to the whole human race."
The violoncello part is called upon to use two contrasting ranges of its tone colors. In the first 28 measures, the somber tone colors evoke the word "mystery" in the hymn stanza. This passage should be played with rubato, resonating arpeggios, and some improvisation as the soloist may desire. From measure 43, the musical expression is joyfully, calling on the cello to sing out its brightest high notes.
The first performance took place in a worship service at Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg, Virginia, on August 13, 2023, with David Feldman, cello, and James Siddons, piano, performing. A brief video of this performance has been posted on YouTube as "Gather Us In" featuring David Feldman, cello." See https://youtu.be/sIzS72mMRWI?si=DT4rj6UGhdtWDvsc James Siddons has numerous compositions and arrangements of church music, American music (especially ragtime and religious song), and modern classical music. His teachers include Merrill Ellis, founder of the electronic music program at the University of North Texas, and Dika Newlin, a student and biographer of Arnold Schoenberg.
See www.JamesSiddons.com
