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the close and holy darkness for women’s choir

Kathleen Allan 2012 from A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept.

Commissioned by the Savridi Singers, director Cody Obst Calgary, Alberta

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Commissioned by the Savridi Singers, director Cody Obst Calgary, Alberta, 2012

the close and holy darkness for SSAA choir

Dylan Thomas (from A Child's Christmas in Wales)

° 3 pp Soprano 1 & b 4 œ ˙

Kathleen Allan

q = 90 hushed, reverent

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close

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