UNC-TV Arts

NC Master Chorale: Dream as an Innocent Child
Celebrate the Joy of the Season with the NC Master Chorale as they perform a new holiday song by a local composer.
TRANSCRIPT
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh
♪Lux, lux, lux in tenebris ♪
♪Lux in tenebris lucet ♪
♪ Woven in a tapestry of time and memory ♪
♪ Are images of childhood Christmastime ♪
♪ Blankets of frosty white
♪ Faint, flickering candlelight ♪
♪ And crimson bows beneath a verdant tree ♪
♪ Mystery and miracle and joy to all the world ♪
♪ With reverence we intoned the carols ♪
♪ We sang of peace on Earth
♪ A humble baby's birth
♪ And shepherds bathed in soft, celestial glow ♪
♪ But time frays the threads of youthful innocence ♪
♪ And wonder
♪ Passing seasons bring pain and circumstance ♪
♪ When all around us is discord and shadow ♪
♪ Let us see
♪ As an innocent child
♪ Peering with enchantment
♪ At star-flecked Christmas skies ♪
♪ Let us hope as an innocent child ♪
♪ Assured of future promise and possibility ♪
♪ Let us dream as an innocent child ♪
♪ Boundless and unburdened by fallow fantasy ♪
♪ For in seeing, in hoping, in dreaming ♪
♪ The still, small light of Christmas shines ♪
♪Lux ♪
♪Lux ♪
♪Lux ♪