Colour of Love, The

Genre: Choral

Mood: Religious

Forces: SATB

Length: 5 Minutes

About

This choral piece, inspired by the windows at All Saints’ Church, Tudeley, sets The Windows by George Herbert, interspersed with quotations from Marc Chagall.

Sheet Music

Watermarked (Free)

Download

Unwatermarked

Enquire

Printed Copies

Enquire

Text

Chagall:
Blue is the colour of love

George Herbert:
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?
He is a brittle crazie glasse:
Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford
This glorious and transcendent place,
To be a window, through thy grace.

Chagall:
Blue is the colour of love; red is the colour of joy
Colour is everything.

George Herbert:
But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie,
Making thy life to shine within
The holy Preachers ; then the light and glorie
More reverend grows, and more doth win:
Which else shows waterish, bleak, and thin.

Chagall:
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing

George Herbert:
Doctrine and life, colours and light, in one
When they combine and mingle, bring
A strong regard and awe: but speech alone
Doth vanish like a flaring thing,
And in the eare, not conscience ring.

Chagall:
My painting represents not the dream of one people but of all humanity.

Performances

First performance: Cantate Choir, Robin Walker, All Saints' Church Tudeley, 23 June 2018.