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Heaven's Dance is based on a poem by Audrey Vaughan, a Catholic poet based in Macclesfield.
She is imagining angels dancing and telling of their heavenly experiences. Matthew's performance here is particularly effective
especially at the point where the piano stops and the choir goes into dreamy harmonies.

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Our feet dance upon the stars, across the singing laughter of the galaxies.
Our hands entwined, yet freer than ever was the earthly mountain air.
Here air's our boat though never could we drown for lack of it.
Our fingers tease apart the clouds and flick snow up on the gasping desert,
which cling like specks of thought to a drop of world too small to see
yet once was long and painful in its miles of parting.
There's laughter lightness in our silver blood and our sapphire voices sing to echo joy
from peak to peak of mountain moon reveals where our passing stirs not a grain of dust.

As bladeshod soles, our feet speed round the rings of Saturn, held within our arms.
To tumble in happy heap of rainbow ice countless lightyears further,
and from our eyes Love shakes gold across the Universe.

But there are havens, and peace and rest and tranquil meadows
Earth eyes see no more. Earth's perfume's dispersed and lost from shrivelled blossom
and the brook chatters its secrets to ears that hear no thing.
The empty shell lies on the shore
Memory has not died and all earth-love lives on
But when the dance is paused there is repose,
and the perfecting is rooted in the imperfections to perfection.
There are no rings to bind, only love
who frees our feet and hearts to join His dance.
© Audrey Vaughan 1995

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from Choral music sung by Matthew Curtis, released February 18, 2015
Matthew Curtis

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David Warin Solomons Sale, UK

Composer from UK born in 1953, concentrating on lyrical and tonal works for chamber music combinations, solo voice and choral works.

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