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May the Road Rise to Meet You [Live]

from Senior Recital by David Lee Grossman

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This traditional Irish blessing is probably one of the most well-known texts in the world of choral music – so many settings exist of it that I have actually heard it called a requirement for choral composers, much the same way that fugues are for baroque composers and sonatas or symphonies are for classical.

From the middle of second grade through sixth grade, I was homeschooled, and attended Princeton Friends School for seventh and eighth grade. Each year at graduation, the school chorus performs a setting of this blessing, with a still-prevalent but less common variation of the text – the same text that I use for this piece.

This piece will also be performed next Monday at the choir’s Spring Concert – Lift Ev’ry Voice.

lyrics

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back;
May the sun shine warm upon your face.

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back;
May the sun shine warm upon your face.

May the rains fall soft upon your fields,
And 'til we meet again;
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
Until we meet again.

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back;
May the sun shine warm upon your face.

And until we meet again, my friend,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Amen.

credits

from Senior Recital, released April 26, 2014
Recorded live by Princeton Area Homeschool Choir's Kindred Singers division, and conducted by the composer. This recording is from the choir's spring concert, 'Lift Ev'ry Voice' (4/28/2014).

Soprano - Madeleine Zizwarek, Maria Santos, Rachel Cherry, Leenie Rohmeyer
Alto - Anne Marie Kluempen, Holly Jones, Elisabeth Cerha, Sierra Brock
Tenor - Jeremy Cerha, Mark Defreitas, Esteban Thomas
Bass - Jonathan Santos, Gabriel Boorse, Andrew Bastedo, Steven Hayes, Nicholas Waguespack

Piano - Mr. Mark Hahn
Conductor - David Grossman

Recorded by Mr. Pete Hatherell of Mantipi Productions

Written 5/25/2013

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David Lee Grossman Charleston, South Carolina

Inspired from a young age by Mozart to write music, and more recently John Williams to write soundtrack music, David Grossman began composing in 7th grade and already has a diverse portfolio encompassing many genres from baroque and classical to jazz to choral and vocal music. He is a graduate of Westminster Choir College (BM, Music Composition) and the Seattle Film Institute (MM, Film Music) ... more

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