New Colossus from We Came Searching from a Home
Program note
This setting of Emma Lazarus’ powerful New Colossus was originally written as the finale to my choral cycle about immigration, We Came Searching for a Home. Moving from soprano solo to duet to a full choral setting, it sets her powerful words -
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Now engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty, the words live as a beacon and a symbol of hope, a reminder that we are at our very core a nation of immigrants; a mosaic of cultures, beliefs, and diversity.
Duration – 5 minutes
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Text by Emma Lazarus Music by Juhi Bansal
Soprano Solo
With warmth and resolution q = 100-110
Solo espressivo, freely
Piano (for rehearsal only) Give mp meyourtired,- yourpoor, Yourhuddled-masses-
(follow soprano solo)
SOPRANO
(follow soprano solo)
ALTO
Solo espressivo, freely
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huddled-masses-yearning- to cresc.
huddled-masses-yearning- to cresc.
huddled-masses-yearning- tobreathe cresc.
huddled-masses-yearning- tobreathe cresc. cresc.
The p wretched-refuse-of the cresc. wretched-refuse-
The p wretched-refuse-of cresc. of The cresc. wretched-refuse-of of cresc. of
h = 75 beginning to lose momentum (Feel in 1)
wretched-refuse-of
dim. wretched-refuse-of
wretched-refuse-of
wretched-refuse-of
Pno.
tee ming, -teeming-
tee ming, -teeming-
long and slow With energy, warm and resolute, h = 60
shore pp
shore pp
Sendthese,the teeming,-teeming - shore pp
Sendthese,the teeming,-teeming -
shore pp
Sendthese,the pp
Pno.
homeless- tome,
Sendthese,thetempest-tossed, to homeless- tome,
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