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LaVoy | Th e Dr eam I Kn e w
The Dream I Knew n
Thomas
L a Vo y
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James Jordan Executive Editor
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Notes An open letter to all involved with the Choral Institute at Oxford, 2015… Dear friends, Our third year together at St. Stephen’s House, Oxford, has come and gone, and yet I still carry with me at all times the memories that formed during the program. Each successive year seems to draw conductors and singers who are not only eager to learn but actively contribute to the intangible spirit of what has been created at the institute. The CIO has taken on a distinctive personality in my mind, built from the characteristics of learning, growth and love that every person who passes through those halls has exhibited in the past three years. It was an honor to witness the journey that each of you took through the institute, and to experience the evolution of a program that I respect and admire. The choral work following this letter is the third installment in the series of pieces that I composed with the CIO being the primary inspiration. In 2013 I produced “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” following the very first iteration of the program, setting the famous text by William Butler Yeats. Last year I took on the particularly ambitious project of composing “Songs of the Questioner.” At that time the music that I composed was a conduit for the host of emotions that accompanied the death of my grandmother, and so “Songs of the Questioner” was distinctly dark in nature. In the months that followed the 2014 CIO, I faced the deaths of two more family members and the suicide of a student. As these events unfolded I gained new perspective into the ebb and flow of life, and in particular the ways in which the presence of certain people can affect great change within the self. I can say without a shadow of doubt that each of you, as members of the CIO family, have moved and changed me in ways that I never expected. It is out of the love and affection that I have for you that this piece was born, and I hope that it is a fitting gift for the people that have so moved me with their individual and collective spirit. There is no greater feeling than to see one’s own work aid in the education and spiritual experiences of another. For three years now I have had this feeling at Oxford, and I am profoundly grateful for having been given the opportunity to write for you. This year I return to the work of Yeats, a poet whose words have never ceased to speak to me. The text is adapted from the poem “To Ireland in the Coming Times,” and I feel it is a summation of how the memories of our mutual experiences at the CIO have enveloped and protected me from the darkness of recent times. My hope is that you too find solace in these memories, and that you may call on them when a moment of reprieve from the stresses of life is needed. As always, thank you to Williamson Voices for your dedication and for bringing such joy and promise to the art of choral music. Thank you to the conductors, for inspiring us all with your individual stories and talents. Thank you to James Whitbourn for teaching me what it means to be a composer, year after year, without fail. And finally, thank you to James Jordan for making me the composer and man that I am today. With love and admiration, Thomas LaVoy August 8th, 2015
The Dream I Knew While still I may, I write for you The love I lived, the dream I knew. From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye; And we, our singing and our love, What measurer Time has lit above, And all benighted things that go About my table to and fro, Are passing on to where may be, In truth’s consuming ecstasy, No place for love and dream at all; For God goes by with white footfall. I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them. While still I may, I write for you The love I lived, the dream I knew. —William Butler Yeats
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to all participants of the 2015 Choral Institute at Oxford
THE DREAM I KNEW
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