A Procession Winding Around Me: Reconciliation, Jeffrey Van - CSU Concert Choir

The CSU Concert Choir performs the fourth movement from Jeffrey Van's poignant work, "A Procession Winding Around Me."
Dr. Nathan Payant, conductor
Jeff LaQuatra, guitar
Spring Concert, March 7, 2020
Full Concert: • CSU Chamber Choir and ...
"Reconciliation" by Walt Whitman:
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in
time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly
softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world:
…For my enemy is dead-a man divine as myself is dead;
I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin-I
draw near;
I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face
in the coffin.

[@n1bsbri]

The choir I'm with was preparing this piece for a Spring '20 concert which sadly never occurred. This is a very nice performance, glad to see it posted.

[@nathanpayant2350]

Thank you for your kind comment, Brian. We were lucky to perform this piece one week before everything closed down for the rest of the year. We still haven’t performed for a live audience since this concert. Fingers crossed for this November. Take care.