Go, my children, with my blessing
Go, my children, with my blessing. Jaroslav Vajda* (1919-2008).
This was written for an existing, well-known hymn tune in 1983. The text was first published in an SATB anthem setting by Carl Schalk* with organ (1984), and then in Vajda’s collection Now the Joyful Celebration: Hymns, Carols, and Songs (St Louis, 1987). The author describes the context of the hymn’s composition:
Concordia Publishing House was looking for a text that would make the charming and popular Welsh tune, AR HYD Y NOS [‘All through the night’], available for daytime use, broadening its usage beyond its traditional association with an evening text. To me the soft and contemplative melody suggested a setting of the...
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