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Frank La Rocca
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The music of composer Frank La Rocca. Learn more at www.franklarocca.com.
For the Chinese Martyrs
Do please read the poem, given below, as you listen. The music and the poem are intimately -- even inextricably - linked.
Poem by James Matthew Wilson
I/Fr. Chrysostom Chang:
A flowering of wire
Binds the bare wrists behind;
The opened skin a fire
He suffers to remind
Of one before who wore a crown of briar.
II/Fr. Francis Tian Tiande:
All other petals fled
As pelting snow descends,
Stiff boughs awash in red
Blossoms the season lends
Blush like the beaten prisoner’s lifted head.
*
Cold breath in air appears
As he toils through the cold,
Exiled these thirty years.
His stiffening arms enfold
A girl who wanders through the snow in tears.
III/ Gertrude Li Minwen
Within the cell she’ll wait
As does the lily’s heart
Beneath the snowfall’s weight,
However unsure what part
She plays within the suffering Church’s fate.
IV/ Fr. Joseph Li Chang
After the lamp-lit Mass,
The corporal stashed away,
He seemed a shattered glass
And now began to pray
That with his suffering his breath might pass.
*
The spring rains come at last
To soften frozen soil.
The heart regrets the past;
The stomach longs for oil.
Green shoots appear where last year’s seeds were cast.
V/ Fr. John Huang Yongmu
They are too long, the days
Of laboring iron and stone.
Our food a bowl of maize,
Our prayers a silent moan,
We, the afflicted, are yet full of praise.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Copyright ©2024 by Lumen Verum Music. Text used with permission of the poet.
Poem by James Matthew Wilson
I/Fr. Chrysostom Chang:
A flowering of wire
Binds the bare wrists behind;
The opened skin a fire
He suffers to remind
Of one before who wore a crown of briar.
II/Fr. Francis Tian Tiande:
All other petals fled
As pelting snow descends,
Stiff boughs awash in red
Blossoms the season lends
Blush like the beaten prisoner’s lifted head.
*
Cold breath in air appears
As he toils through the cold,
Exiled these thirty years.
His stiffening arms enfold
A girl who wanders through the snow in tears.
III/ Gertrude Li Minwen
Within the cell she’ll wait
As does the lily’s heart
Beneath the snowfall’s weight,
However unsure what part
She plays within the suffering Church’s fate.
IV/ Fr. Joseph Li Chang
After the lamp-lit Mass,
The corporal stashed away,
He seemed a shattered glass
And now began to pray
That with his suffering his breath might pass.
*
The spring rains come at last
To soften frozen soil.
The heart regrets the past;
The stomach longs for oil.
Green shoots appear where last year’s seeds were cast.
V/ Fr. John Huang Yongmu
They are too long, the days
Of laboring iron and stone.
Our food a bowl of maize,
Our prayers a silent moan,
We, the afflicted, are yet full of praise.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Copyright ©2024 by Lumen Verum Music. Text used with permission of the poet.
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Here is a boy soprano with exceptional talent yet he is barely discovered because from the looks of it his mother does not know how to promote her son’s gift. Soon it will be gone. Now is the time to run full speed with his beautiful voice recording all the time. If only voices like this were put out into the limelight fully oh what a gift it would be. It’s my hope that someone will read my comment who is close to this boy & go ‘oh my goodness… yes we must do the right thing here’. I am a choir master of 26 years at an all boy school in the US
An angel voice ❤
beautiful sound!!!
🙏🏻🇧🇷💜
I met you this past weekend at a conference. This clip is the one I was saying is my favorite. The one I wish I could play on a loop, or as I suggested that you make an extended version. 🙂
This is hauntingly beautiful, and the text with music should make us all pause for a moment in respect for those who died for Christ and His Church. We should ask: Will I be resolute if asked to die for my faith? Thank you, Frank, for giving us this necessary and sublime meditation.
So beautiful but one must read the poem as well. I love it.
Thanks for sharing this with me! Yes, it is very BEAUTIFULLY WELL SANG VOICES WITH EMOTION........... GOD BLESS!
Bellissima ...💛🙏💕🪷🪷🪷🪷🪷
Powerful!
signor La Rocca,ascolto solo canti gregoriani o Hildegarda......sono in opposizione al modernismo....detesto quelle oscene chiese che i massoni impongono per distruggere la nostra bimillenaria religione,ma la sua composizione è bellissima,toccante e nuova,.......ancora i miei complimenti La Rocca....le garantisco che sono sinceri
Questo è un commento molto gratificante. Grazie mille.
This choir is awesome spiritual inspiration.
Hauntingly beautiful, and sad. May Our Lord's love comfort and protect the Faithful in China.
Thanks so much for posting the poem. This is so beautiful! God bless you and JM Wilson!
sound of heaven!
Marvelous!
Breathtaking!!
🗽
Absolutely beautiful!
thank you
Will they give a TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS at the Requiem Mass? 2024 tour?
Ab Cordileone
Quien es el Obispo que preside la Santa Misa?
I am really astonished with this piece. Actually not only this one, but I adore and I am really inspired by many of your works. I can't wait to hear this work in its entirety! Anyway, two months ago (and currently) I've sent you emails regarding to search references for my thesis, and hopefully you are pleased to check it and I will be happy and thankful if you don't mind to reply it.
Astonishing on so many levels. Bravi, tutti: soli Deo gloria.
Beautiful work! Such a great use of the timbres of these instruments and the voice. Thank you for writing such a work that directs the mind and heart to God.
It is a sublime honor to have performed this piece before.
Where did the MC get his surplice from?
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Hauntingly beautiful! What a stunning composition and the voice! Wow!
thank you so much, Celeste.
What a voice!
WOW.
Beautiful!
So beautiful!
This must be what heaven sounds like.
Thank you for featuring Anselm in this production of your exquisite piece. Pueri Cantores San Gabriel Valley is blessed to have him in our ranks.
Beautiful! He is so talented. 🤍
"Aue Maria" is my most favorite of Frank La Rocca's music. I would play the song on a loop if possible. It's beautiful, all versions.
This is incredible! What a gift to the world🙏🏻
Thank you for this amazing piece.
You’re welcome. Thanks for listening and commenting.
Absolutely sublime. No words... 💯love. I think i was tearing up before the Archbishop. He was not the only one with tears in that shot.
So beautiful! Gorgeouses long phrases and slow counterpoint, enchanting mystical atmosphere, skilful use of the formal arcs. Bravo!
Beautiful piece and very beautiful ceremony.
From South Africa: So devine, Impressive formation Heavenly music Holy display at the Eucharist True Catholic Mmmmmmmhhhhh
ADMG
Grazie, Signor LaRocca. La Messa e bella, e l'Ave Maria e squisita.
Absolutely beautiful.
O Céu descendo à terra!
Kyrie Eleison!!
So beautiful. Thank you for uploading this!!!!
GORGEOUS! Gives chills up my spine with LOVE for our Blessed Mother