Commissioned for performance on February 17, 1990, for the Augsburg
Choir at the Second Annual Peace Prize Forum. Commissioned by Clair and Gladys Strommen,
Lutheran Brotherhood.
When will you ever, Peace,
wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
Your 'round me roaming end,
and under be my boughs?
When, when, Peace, will you, Peace?
I'll not play hippocrite
 To own my
heart: I yield you do
comesometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace.
What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars,
the death of it?
O surely, reaving Peace,
my Lord should leave in lieu
Some good! And so he does leave
Patience exquisite,
That plumes to Peace thereafter.
And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do,
he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.
- by Gerald Manley Hopkins
About the Composer...
Stephen Paulus is currently composer in residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Prior to this appointment, he was composer in residence with the Minnesota
Orchestra, the Santa Fe Music Festival and the Tanglewood Festival.
Stephen Paulus' orchestral works and operas have been performed in major cities throughout
the United States. His opera, "The Postman Always Rings Twice," was the
first American opera production to be presented at the Edinburgh Festival. His works
have also received performances at the Aldeburgh Festival as well as throughout Europe and
the Soviet Union.
This spring, New World Records will release a new recording of three Paulus works
performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, including Violin Concerto which won third
prize at the 1988 Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards.
Speakers | Schedule
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