To Know the Dark
Radix Women's Vocal Ensemble
Words Are For the Birds: Songs Without Words, and Songs About Birds
Eliot Chapel, First Unitarian Church - Portland, OR
December 9, 2023
Radix Vocal Ensemble: Helen Allen, JD Carter, Naama Friedman, Emily Gimba, Keely Gvakharia, Iris Mairead, Mhari Scott, Mila Trank-Greene, Devon Webster & Quinlyn Wright
Amy Stuart Hunn, director
Paul Flyger, piano
To Know the Dark
Music by J. David Moore (b.1962)
Lyrics by Wendell Berry (b.1934)
To go into the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.