Description
A popular piece for high school through professional treble choirs, I begin writing She Rises because I was interested in exploring the physics of light and the mystery of illumination through the power of the human voice. I began by imagining what electrons falling from higher to lower energy levels, emitting light in the process, would sound like if made by the human voice. For a few weeks, I walked around making different “sun sounds” and asking other people what they thought the sun “sounded” like.
I was surprised while I was working on the piece to have a Celtic-style melody come to me and I wondered if it was part of the same composition or a new one. I “googled” Celtic Sun Goddess and, of course, found the Celtic sun goddess, Brigid. This melody inspired the lyrics for She Rises which speak of Brigid as she crosses the sky and of Saint Brigid of Kildare, the Irish saint of, among other things, poetry, the hearth fire, the forge and illumination. A jubilant celebration of energy, She Rises is a reminder of the light that resides within us and around us.
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