{"id":3202,"date":"2020-12-17T14:53:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T20:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2020-12-21T08:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T14:35:42","slug":"all-creation-sings-hymn-spotlight-night-long-awaited-noche-anunciada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/3202\/","title":{"rendered":"All Creation Sings Hymn Spotlight: Night Long-Awaited \/ Noche Anunciada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2073\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2020\/04\/CrossLeaves.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2020\/04\/CrossLeaves.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2020\/04\/CrossLeaves-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The days of Christmas are typically a time to sing beloved carols. This year when we are gathered in our homes, it may be especially comforting to sing familiar Christmas carols. While singing songs etched on our minds and hearts is important, we affirm that as creative people made in God\u2019s image we create and seek out new ways to sing the story of Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><em>All Creation Sings <\/em>provides six hymns and songs under the Christmas heading; the topical index offers additional suggestions. While some of these may be familiar from their inclusion in other resources, some are brand new to an ELCA worship book. One of these is the hymn, \u201cNight Long-Awaited \/ Noche anunciada\u201d by F\u00e9lix Luna (text) and Ariel Ram\u00edrez (music).<\/p>\n<p>While new to our resources, this hymn was composed in the 1960s. It is an excerpt from &#8220;Navidad Nuestra: A Folk Drama of the Nativity Based on the Rhythms and Traditions of Hispanic America.\u201d Published for mixed chorus and soloists with percussion, guitar and harpsichord\/piano, it included text in both Spanish and English. The performance notes in the original score describe it: \u201cNavidad Nuestra\u2014Our Nativity\u2014was created for a <em>criollo retable\u2014<\/em>a native tableau\u2014where each moment of the Mystery of the Incarnation is expressed in a popular manner, with all the tenderness that the Miracle of two thousand years ago evokes in the spirit of the simple people.\u201d Each section used a different regional voice.<\/p>\n<p>F\u00e9lix Luna, Argentine poet, collaborated with Ariel Ram\u00edrez, an Argentine and internationally celebrated choral composer, in this tender and simple hymn. Of course, we are also indebted to the work of translators. The version of \u201cNight Long-Awaited&#8221; in <em>All Creation Sings <\/em>was translated by Adam Tice (ACS also includes five of his original hymns). Translations allow the texts to speak anew to us in every generation, but it\u2019s interesting to point out one feature of the original text that changed over time.<\/p>\n<p>The end of stanza two of the version published for mixed chorus in 1965 reads:<\/p>\n<p>When He is smiling, Radiance glows,<br \/>\nAnd in His arms, a tiny cross grows.<\/p>\n<p>The recent translation reads:<\/p>\n<p>Light for our shadows, grace for our loss;<br \/>\nBorn for our dying, bearing our cross.<\/p>\n<p>Both settings connect the incarnation to the death of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike \u201cSilent Night,\u201d this hymn incorporates \u201credeeming grace\u201d with more direct references to the arc of salvation through Jesus, that \u201call that is broken shall be restored\u201d (stanza 2). Like \u201cSilent Night,\u201d the music ushers us into a sense of stillness and awe, complete with beautiful four-part harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Several recordings exist of this. Jos\u00e9 Carreras sings the hymn in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3VgH2vgBOBg\">this recording<\/a>. Though it is pitched in a higher key, it captures the simple beauty of this hymn. You can also hear it in the key of C in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j1Uu8sXwpoI\">this less formal recording<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The hymn concludes:<\/p>\n<p>Now is God\u2019s promise born in the night,<br \/>\nwake to its fullness; live in its light.<br \/>\nChrist comes among us; people, draw near!<br \/>\nCome to the manger; Christmas is here.<\/p>\n<p>May a treasury of songs, both old and new, fill your hearts and homes this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3209 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2020\/12\/Icon4_Color_191.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2020\/12\/Icon4_Color_191.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2020\/12\/Icon4_Color_191-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about All Creation sings, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburgfortress.org\/AllCreationSings\">www.augsburgfortress.org\/AllCreationSings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Night Long-Awaited \/ Noche anunciada<br \/>\nText: F\u00e9lix Luna, 1925-2009; tr. Adam M. L. Tice, b. 1979<br \/>\nMusic: Ariel Ram\u00edrez, 1921-2010<br \/>\nText and music \u00a9 1965 Lawson-Gould, admin. Alfred Music<br \/>\nPermission required for further use.<\/h6>\n<p>Image: Sundays and Seasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days of Christmas are typically a time to sing beloved carols. This year when we are gathered in our homes, it may be especially comforting to sing familiar Christmas carols. 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