Christmas Song (clarinet and guitar) by David Warin Solomons Clarinet - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.575618

This instrumental piece is based on my "Christmas Song" - a meditation on finding the Christ child within oneself Versions for choir and guitar, choir and piano, the original version for alto voice and guitar, and versions for alto saxophone and guitar, cor anglais and guitar and cello and guitar are also available here.
The pdf file contains the score and separate parts

Performed by Tina Swoboda and Petra Schwarzl (Duo TiPet)

Poem by Audrey Vaughan

I sought him where the marble shone

and rang with singing echoes
to the hurrying prelates' feet

and found him not

I sought him where the golden glow
and painted heav'n-eyed saints adorn
the sleeping altars

and found him not

I sought him where all nature's
beauty burned

with autumn leaves afire
with death against the long blue sky

and found him not

I sought him down the stone sett streets
dull beneath the misty rain
which closed the surrounding hills

and found him not

I sought him in the eyes of strangers
bright with giving thoughts
and in the hearts of friends

but found him not

I sought him
him whom I loved
in ev'ry thing I loved
in my own heart's loving

but this night I found him not
I found him not

but still I sought him
this gurgling boy of joy
but where?

the dark sky all above
and round me
like a suffocating empty cloak
took time away
my thoughts away
my search away

and the peace of emptiness of self
opened the low brown door

and there his newness tiny lay

deep in the shriven hollow
of my heart
cradled there

I found him

©Audrey Vaughan.