<div dir="auto">Dear Ellie — </div><div dir="auto">I’m so glad this step has been taken with your song. It is brilliant, both the lyrics and the choral arrangement. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. Wouldn’t it be great to have it performed in churches far & wide on Earth Day! Seems like a great candidate for school choruses too.</div><div dir="auto">Grace & Peace (Grapes & Peas too)</div><div dir="auto">Nancy Trask</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:45 AM Ellie Stock via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div></div>
<div><b style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subject:</b><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Let the Earth Breathe (choral arrangement); backstory of song</span><br></div></div><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyahoo_quoted_2225641791"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a"><div><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728"><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728ydpee5e74c2yahoo_quoted_0888350979"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a"><div><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728ydpee5e74c2yiv1986668768"><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728ydpee5e74c2yiv1986668768ydpec7e62ebyahoo_quoted_0813617616"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a"><div><br clear="none"></div>
<div><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728ydpee5e74c2yiv1986668768ydpec7e62ebyiv1208038493"><div dir="ltr">Hi Folks,</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Greetings from St. Louis. I hope you have survived the heat and storms of this summer.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">In previous years during the Earth Day season, I have emailed the music notation and link to audio and song video of the song "Let the Earth Breathe."</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I am now sending a recent choral arrangement of "Let the Earth Breathe" which was excerpted from our church's (Second Presbyterian Church, St. Louis) April 22 Earth Day Service that Carleton and I coordinated. The song was arranged and accompanied by our Minister of Music, Spencer Smith, and sung by the Second PC choir. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The audio recording is not a professional one, but it gives you an idea. Spencer improvises on the accompaniment music notation he wrote. Tempo and emphases can vary, but the audio gives you an idea of what can be done. </div></div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Some backstory of the song: "Let the Earth Breathe" was originally written in the spring of 2012 for our local Ferguson Environmental Event which was also our local ICA 50th Anniversary Event. During the event we planned for future environmental work in the Ferguson area, colored strips which were sent to the Greenrise for the collaborative mural that was dedicated in September of 2012. From that meeting was birthed the Ferguson Eco Team that Carleton and I co-coordinate, now in its 12th year.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Looking to September, some churches and groups celebrate the Season of Creation, beginning September 1 with the International Day of Prayer for Creation and ending October 4, the Feast Day of St. Francis. So, if you are part of a group/choir or know of one for which this song would be appropriate, feel free to use or pass it along. Or it could be used for Earth Day or any day.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Attached (below)</b>: Let the Earth Breathe, Choral Arrangement music<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>YouTube link</b>: Let the Earth Breathe, <b>Choral arrangement: </b><a href="https://youtu.be/QLF0orJp42Y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/QLF0orJp42Y</a></div><div><br></div><div>Stay cool, and I hope you have an enjoyable rest of your summer!<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Grapes and peas ~</div><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728yqtfd17612"><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728yqtfd45776">Ellie :)</div></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:elliestock@aol.com" target="_blank">elliestock@aol.com</a> </div></div><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728yqtfd69352"><div id="m_-7211731819910307386ydpdbd721edyiv5451960728ydpee5e74c2yiv1986668768yqtfd56222">
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