The Garden of Love
for mixed choir and piano
A setting of William Blake’s poem “The Garden of Love”, from Songs of Experience.
SKU: JBN-001
Categories: Choral Music, Mixed Voices
Instrumentation: Choral
| Duration: | 1-5 Minutes |
| Language: | English |
| Voicing: | SATB |
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| ‘Balm in Gilead’ is a fervent prayer to the heavens, to relieve the aches and weighty sorrows of an entire enslaved people. In his memorable autobiography, Frederick Douglass wrote these searing, and unforgettable words; “I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, […] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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