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O Vos Omnes (from To Know the Path)
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A driving movement from To Know the Path, “O Vos Omnes” uses all the color and range that a larger choir has to offer. This movement was originally featured in VocalEssence’s Essentially Choral program before the larger work was conceived.
Text: Lamentations 1:12 and Stabat Mater
Co-Commissioned by: Amherst College Chorale Society, Arianne Abela, director; Border CrosSing and the Unity Singers, Ahmed Anzaldúa, director; and Central Presbyterian Church Choir, Jennifer Anderson, director.
Publisher: Published by Border CroSsing and distributed by Graphite Marketplace.
O vos omnes,
qui transistis per viam
attendite et videte
si est dolor,
sicut dolor meus.
Stabat Mater dolorosa
Juxta crucem lacrimosa,
–Lamentations 1:12 and Stabat Mater
Translation:
O all you
who pass along the way
behold and see
if there is any sorrow
like unto my sorrow.
There stood the Mother grieving,
beside the cross weeping.
This is excerpted from the larger work, To Know the Path. The ninth hour is biblically significant because it is the time Jesus died and the temple veil was torn in two. The Lamentations passage features a great crowd passing by a scene of utter sorrow. This is layered with the soloist singing the Stabat Mater text “There stood the mother grieving, beside the cross weeping”. In the word “omnes”, close to ‘m’ and sing through the hum as marked in the score. The choir “mob” becomes oblivious to the soloist’s pain and suffering as her cries are overtaken by their loud interjections starting at letter D. In m. 97 sing hushed with some breathiness as the crowd finally disperses leaving the mother bereft and alone.
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