Love Came Gently
Description:
A Kate Janzen original, "Love Came Gently" takes the listener on a journey through rich harmonic structures, a haunting winter storm, and reminds us that true love shows up with gentle, tender care. This ‘not-your-adverage-love-song’ is for intermediate to advanced ensembles.
About the Text
When it comes to love and companionship, we often have an expectation about how it will show up for us. In the case of "Love Came Gently," our main character is waiting for something grandiose: a prince riding in on his noble steed with a backdrop of a picturesque, golden autumn. She sits by her window expectantly, waiting to be swept away in some romantic, adventurous gesture like a princess stolen from a tower. However, with the passage of time, no one arrives, and she becomes distraught in a storm of disappointment and hopelessness.
Just as she is about to give up, love shows up in a very different way. Without sweeping grand gestures and whisking from windows, love comes to her ever so gently — with patience and integrity — through the front door. Counter to our own ideas and what we have been led to believe, meaningful love often shows up in our life gently and with tender care.
Highlights:
- Two solo options
- Tight, lush harmonies
- Wordless text painting
- Vast, advanced ranges
- Thoughtful message
Listen:
Text:
Love Came Gently
by Kate Janzen
A girl sat waiting beside an open window:
hoping, praying (that) love would come riding in soon.
There is a story old:
A prince to be a king comes riding on his brilliant steed to claim his wife a queen.
She often dreamed her knight would come in fall —
the autumn leaves are laid with gold —
but soon the snow was falling,
ah and there was still no one to save her.
Then the cold faded away, and the wind turned another year.
And when all hope seemed lost, love came gently through her door.