Once again, our friend Suzi Digby shows her enormous generosity by sharing her latest project with the Ora Singers on Millennium. For complete information on the project, go to:

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 14—John Barber is a young composer from Bristol who was tasked to create a setting of the Sicut Lilium text that we began with; what the composer himself calls “daunting, since the Brumel is a miniature gem of a piece. Aside from the simplicity and beauty of the writing, it felt so spiritually confident and hopeful. In my version, I focused on the image of the lily amongst the thorns; to me it suggests that you can’t have faith without doubt, and you can’t have love without the possibility of losing it."

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Once again, our friend Suzi Digby shows her enormous generosity by sharing her latest project with the Ora Singers on Millennium. For complete information on the project, go to:

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 13—Juan Esquivel was born near Salamanca and returned to his home town of Ciudad Rodrigo in 1591, where he died some 35 years later. This setting of “Arise, my love,” is also from Chapter 2 of the Song of Songs.

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Once again, our friend Suzi Digby shows her enormous generosity by sharing her latest project with the Ora Singers on Millennium. For complete information on the project, go to:

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 12—“Thy breasts are like two fawns, roes that are twins. Thy neck is as a tower of ivory.” Palestrina, incomparable as always, knew that his fellow composers were composing profane madrigals and undergoing condemnation by the church. What could be a greater reaction than setting some of the most charged sections of Solomon’s verse, and dedicating it to the Pope?  He says in his preface that these settings used a style “more spirited than I am wont to use in other church compositions, for so I perceive the subject itself to require.” 

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Once again, our friend Suzi Digby shows her enormous generosity by sharing her latest project with the Ora Singers on Millennium. For complete information on the project, go to:

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 11—Sebastien de Vivanco was born in Avila around 1550, and probably knew and sang with Victoria as a boy. After various journeys to other capitals to work, he came back to Avila until his final assignment in the great University city of Salamanca, where he taught and was chapel master at the cathedral for the last 20 years of his life. The setting “Come, my beloved” is from Chapter 7 of the Song of Songs.

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Once again, our friend Suzi Digby shows her enormous generosity by sharing her latest project with the Ora Singers on Millennium. For complete information on the project, go to:

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 10—Today Jonathan Dove also takes us on the same journey through the town evoked by Victoria yesterday. The composer writes that he was “entranced by the serene beauty of Victoria…and a large part of my reflection dwells on the first eight bars. Gradually, the sadness of the forlorn lover seeking the beloved gives way to increasing agitation…reaching a climax on 'I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him that I am sick of love.’"

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 9: As we wander through the town in Chapter 3 of the Song of Songs, Tómas Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611) perfectly evokes the journey: “I will arise and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth."

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Once again, our friend Suzi Digby shows her enormous generosity by sharing her latest project with the Ora Singers on Millennium. For complete information on the project, go to:

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 8: Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 - c. 1560) may have studied with Josquin, and was the bridge in the Franco-Flemish school to the generation of Palestrina and Victoria. His setting from Chapter 7 of the Song of Songs, rich in sensual imagery and composition, fulfills the text: “How fair and pleasant you are, my beloved, sweet in your delights; Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts like fruit.”

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Once again, our friend Suzi Digby shows her enormous generosity by sharing her latest project with the Ora Singers on Millennium. For complete information on the project, go to:

https://www.millenniumofmusic.com/playlist/desires-a-song-of-songs-collection/

And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 7: Besides his work as an organist and composer, Frances Grier is a working psychoanalyst. The “Dilectus meus mihi” starts from Chapter 5 of the Song of Songs, “My beloved is mine, and I am his.”

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 6: Robert White (c.1538-1574) was a Catholic recusant Tudor composer who after graduating from Cambridge went up to the beautiful cathedral of Ely, where he succeeded his father-in-law, the great Christopher Tye. After working at Chester, he took over the chorus at Westminster Abbey until he and his entire family were killed by the plague. This beautiful setting of the "Tota pulchra es" reminds us why he was so beloved both by his contemporaries and those English composers who came after.

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And as a special treat just for our Millennium fans, she's allowing us to email you a free Easter song every day.

Day 5: Plainchant: Tota pulchra es. This chant is probably most familiar to us in the version dedicated to the Virgin Mary, but the original begins with the phrase from Chapter 4, “You are wholly beautiful my love, and in you there is no blemish….”

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