A New Year

 

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Mixed Choir SATB, 4 Handbells, and Organ

With words by Sheila Dunlop, an easily prepared festive piece to start the year with positive energy. Mostly unison chorus with some two-part sections and a few four-part chords

 

published by Oxford University Press
0-19-385910-6

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---Sheila Dunlop

 

A New Year! Ring out old sorrow,

Bring in joy and harmony

Ring out fear’s cold isolation,

Bring in hope in community

Leave the shadows that shroud us,

Bless the lessons they give

Turn our hearts to the light where we may live.

A new year, leave hate and anger,

Bring in peace and dignity

Ring out doubt and separation,

Bring in faith and unity.

Ring in love!