Rise Again: GIA’s Hymns for Healing

The last of the five songs being provided for a short time by GIA here, is this song by Christian Cosas. It is a WLP song, but they have been swallowed up by GIA.

It was the Association of Catholic Publishers 2019 song of the year. It appears to be an American organisation but that is not indicated in its title.

As written it is mainly a piece for soloist and choir, although I suppose an assembly could take over the cantor role and leave the responses to a few plants in the crowd. You have to love a song that instructs you to sing with hope. His text is not as direct as a John Bell lyric but he gets his point across nonetheless. It has an obligatory key change for the last verse that merges into a coda of recapitulating elements.

My backing is in slowish P&W mode with a build up to noise and puts the call and response parts at opposite ends of the stereo spectrum for clarity.

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