Come, Holy Spirit, and send down from heaven the ray of your light. Come, father of the poor, come, giver of gifts, come, light of hearts. Best consoler, sweet host of souls, sweet refresher. Rest in work, cooling in heat, comfort in crying. O most blessed Light, fill the innermost hearts of your faithful. Without your power nothing is in man, nothing is innocent. Grant us the reward of virtue, grant us final salvation, grant us eternal joy. Alleluia. Amen. These are the words of Howard Goodall's latest edition to the popular Choral Signature Series, Veni,...
Come, Holy Spirit, and send down from heaven the ray of your light. Come, father of the poor, come, giver of gifts, come, light of hearts. Be...
The texts of these choruses were chosen from Ira D. Sankey's popular Gospel Hymn Book, from the mid-nineteenth century, a volume much loved by Charles Ives who quoted numerous Snakey tunes in almost all of this mature works. There is something socially very moving about them, providing as they did a means of solace, comfort and hope for a better life for people whose lives were, on average, probably terrible. Some of the phraseology and turns of phrase may also have been an influence on American poets in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Pre-echoes of Emily Dickenson can be heard...
The texts of these choruses were chosen from Ira D. Sankey's popular Gospel Hymn Book, from the mid-nineteenth century, a volume much loved by Charles...
