Will Todd Passion Music vocal score
Passion Music continues the fusion of jazz and choral music so successfully blended in Will Todd's Mass in Blue. The structure highlights different points in the Passion story, beginning with a new setting of 'Greater love has no man' and including an evocative Stabat Mater, a movement focusing on the seven last words of Christ, and a setting of 'Were you there when they crucified my Lord?'. While some sections are reflective, Todd also makes full use of his understanding of energetic jazz and gospel. The vocal soloist is given plenty of expressive freedom, singing both with the choir and independently to achieve the characteristic jazz-soul style.
Passion Music continues the fusion of jazz and choral music so successfully blended in Will Todd's Mass in Blue. The structure highlights different points in the Passion story, beginning with a new setting of 'Greater love has no man' and including an evocative Stabat Mater, a movement focusing on the seven last words of Christ, and a setting of 'Were you there when they crucified my Lord?'. While some sections are reflective, Todd also makes full use of his understanding of energetic jazz and gospel. The vocal soloist is given plenty of expressive freedom, singing both with the choir and independently to achieve the characteristic jazz-soul style.
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Texts and translations<br />
These texts may be reproduced as required for programme notes.<br />
1. Greater Love<br />
John 15: 13<br />
Greater love has no man, no greater love than this, than to lay down his life for his friends.<br />
2. We Believe<br />
Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–95)<br />
There is a green hill far away,<br />
Without a city wall,<br />
Where the dear Lord was crucified,<br />
Who died to save us all.<br />
We may not know, we cannot tell,<br />
What pains he had to bear,<br />
But we believe it was for us<br />
He hung and suffered there.<br />
He died that we might be forgiven,<br />
He died to make us good,<br />
That we might go at last to heaven,<br />
Saved by his precious blood.<br />
There was no other good enough<br />
To pay the price of sin;<br />
For only he could unlock the gate<br />
Of heaven and let us in.<br />
3. A New Commandment<br />
John 13: 34<br />
I give you a new commandment:<br />
That you love one another as I have loved you.<br />
4. Love Unknown<br />
Samuel Crossman (1624–84)<br />
My song is love unknown,<br />
My saviour’s love to me;<br />
Love to the loveless shown,<br />
That they might lovely be.<br />
O who am I, that for my sake<br />
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?
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