Opus 1414
A Dream of Love (2021)
for SATB Chorus and Organ
Text by W. H. Auden
Harvard University Choir; Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Duration: 3.5 min.
Dedication: for the installation of the Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, The Memorial Church, Harvard University, December 12, 2021
Commission: Commissioned by The Memorial Church, Harvard University
Publisher: Zimbel Press/Subito Music Corp.
Performance materials available from the publisher.
Mary, in a dream of love
Playing as all children play,
For unsuspecting children may
Express in comic make-believe
The wish that later they will know
Is tragic and impossible;
Hear, child, what I am sent to tell:
Love wills your dream to happen, so
Love’s will on earth may be, through you,
No longer a pretend but true.
W. H. Auden (1907–1973)
from For the Time Being (1941–42)