A Life on the Ocean Wave
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About This Piece
Transport your audience to the heart of the ocean with this beautiful setting of Sargent’s classic poem. This original work captures the calm and turmoil of the sea, from the gentle rocking of a ship to the fierce winds and rain. Dive in to A Life On The Ocean Wave!
Details
- Voicing
- SATB
- Composer
- Clark William Lawlor
- Duration
- 5:56
Clark William Lawlor (b. 1980) is an award-winning composer, software engineer, cyclist, and pickleball enthusiast from Salt Lake City, Utah. After studying composition, choral education, and piano performance at the University of Utah in the early 2000s, Clark took a detour from music to pursue a career in business and software engineering. Following a nearly two-decade hiatus, he rekindled his passion for choral music in 2022 after joining a local choir. His first choral composition in over 20 years achieved international acclaim, launching a new chapter in his creative journey. Since then, Clark has been steadily building his body of work, earning multiple awards along the way.
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A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep: Like an eagle caged, I pine On this dull, unchanging shore: Oh! give me the flashing brine, The spray and the tempest’s roar! Once more on the deck I stand Of my own swift-gliding craft: Set sail! farewell to the land! The gale follows fair abaft. We shoot through the sparkling foam Like an ocean bird set free;— Like the ocean bird, our home We’ll find far out on the sea. The land is no longer in view, The clouds have begun to frown; But with a stout vessel and crew, We’ll say, Let the storm come down! And the song of our hearts shall be, While the winds and the waters rave, A home on the rolling sea! A life on the ocean wave! by Epes Sargent (1813 - 1880)