How Can I Keep From Singing
How Can I Keep From Singing is loosely based on a few stanzas from the American folk song/Christian hymn of the same name. An exposed viola solo is tossed and turned by a flurry of commotion from the rest of the orchestra, to be finally free to sing in a final statement of the verse.
- Ensemble
- string orchestra
- Duration
- c. 6.5 minutes
- Year
- 2021
Texts
How Can I Keep from Singing (excerpt)
What though the tempest round me rears,
I know the truth, it liveth.
What though the darkness 'round me close,
Songs in the nights it giveth.
No storm can shake my in most calm
While to that rock I'm clinging.
Since love is lord of Heav'n and Earth,
How can I keep from singing?
How can I keep from singing?
Robert Lowry (1868)
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performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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