Arrival at the Latern Festival (AATTBB) – PDF Download (Copy)
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Duration 3’30
Suitable for: Professional or amateur choirs.
Arrival at the Lantern Festival is part of a three-part choral collection Winter’s Garland, that includes the pre-existing In Winter’s House (2019) and Hands and the Hour. The pieces in the collection are all settings of poems by Jane Draycott.
Winter’s Garland was co-commissioned by Chanticleer and Zero8 in 2025
Text: by Jane Draycott
And will there also be feasting?
Yes, in the orchards – night’s berries
glowing and gleaming: resilient embers –
oranges and apricots grown from
the seeds, free for the picking.
And will there be music?
Yes, even our clothes will be singing,
and the owl and the mistle thrush,
and the lamplighter’s whistling tune
with your name on, high in the trees.
And will there be stories?
Yes, evergreen tales of birds
made of gold and of silver that fly
in the dark overhead like hope on the wing.
And will there be innocence?
Yes and pure adoration, and gifts:
a lantern for everyone to light
the hard-to-find path marked only
by faint constellations of fireflies.
And will there be peace?
Yes for a good while, like day-break
in woods after snowfall, the lanterns
still glowing like faithful promises,
our vow to return year after year.
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