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Sicut Cervus

Motet for SSAATTBB Voices

duration 3½'

 

Commissioned by: Marian Dolan,
for The Chamber Singers of
Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges

World Premiere: 1993, Haverford, Pennsylvania

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Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges,
Marian Dolan, Conductor (live recording)
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Text and Translation:
 
 

Sícut cérvus desíderat ad fóntes aquárum:
íta desíderat ánima méa ad te, Déus.
Sitívit ánima méa ad Déum fóntem vívum:
Quándo véniam et apparébo ánte fáciem Déi?
Fuérunt míhi láchrymæ méæ pánes díe ac nócte,
dum dícitur míhi quotídie: úbi est Déus túus?
In díe mandávit Dóminus misericórdiam súam,
et nócte cánticum éjus:
ápud me orátio Déo vítæ méæ.

                                            Psalm 42: 1-3, 8


As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
so panteth my soul after thee, O God,
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:
when shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my meat day and night;
while they continually say unto me, where is thy God?
Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime,
and in the night his song shall be with me,
and my prayer unto the God of my life.

                                                       (King James Version)


 


 

 
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Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges,
Marian Dolan, Conductor (live recording)
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