Canticum Novum (2025)
for SATB choir, orchestra | 00:06:30
by Melissa Dunphy | text by Ryan Heller and Philip Barnes
There is no score for this work currently available. Please contact the composer for more information.
Commissioned by Cindy Hager and Richard Metzger in honor of Chorus Austin's 60th Anniversary
Ryan Heller, Artistic Director and Conductor
A joyous anthem composed in celebration of Chorus Austin's 60th anniversary, premiered with the Austin Symphony on a program with Orff's Carmina Burana.
2+picc.2+eh.2+bcl.2+cbn - 4.3.3.1 - timp.perc(3) - cel - pf - strings
Text
Canticum Novum
English text by Ryan Heller
Latin text and translation by Philip Barnes
O quam vita splendeat!
[O how my life should shine!]
Let us each carry beauty's light,
The beating heart of the world in one rhythm,
Celebrating the wondrous harmony
of many tongues united in song.
Tellus Mater floruit,
Et mirabilia generat;
Mille flores tradidit
Quo delectemur colore.
[Earth, our Mother, has flowered
And produces wonderful things
She has given a thousand blooms
By whose color we are delighted.]
We praise life, we praise love.
May we always live in glorious light.
Vivamus semper in luce
Mundi tam mirabilis.
[Let us always live in the light
Of a world that is so amazing.]
Carmen nostrum nunc cantandum!
Gaudete!
[Our song now must be sung!
Rejoice!]
We sing a new song!