YADDO (Benjamin)

YADDO (Benjamin)

Composer: Thomas Benjamin
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: Thomas Benjamin

Thomas Benjamin was born in 1940 in Bennington, Vermont. He received degrees from Bard College, Bradeis, Harvard and Eastman. He has taught at the National Music Camp at Interlochen, the University of Houston's School of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory of The John Hopkins University. He is the co-author of three music theory texts and the author of two books on counterpoint. He has composed music for violin, piano, viola, orchestra, chamber orchestras and choir. He has also written oratorios, cantatas, operas, and a number of hymn tunes for the Unitarian church. Dianne Shapiro from "A digital library of Unitarian Universalist biographies, books, and media," Harvard Square Library, accessed online 8/9/2020 Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: YADDO (Benjamin)
Composer: Thomas Benjamin
Meter: 10.11.10.11
Incipit: 56712 32345 55424
Key: F Major or modal
Copyright: © 1992 Asociación Unitaria Universalista

Texts

Break not the circle of enabling love

Break not the circle of enabling love
where people grow, forgiven and forgiving;
break not that circle - make it wider still,
till it includes, embraces all the living.

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Las Voces del Camino #62

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Singing the Living Tradition #323

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