Santa Fe Desert Chorale: North by Ryan O'Neal (Sleeping At Last), arr. by George Chung

Recorded live from the 2023 Summer Festival program: The American Immigrant Experience
Michael Jones, tenor
Kathlene Ritch, soprano
Nathan Salazar, piano
Joshua Habermann, Artistic Director
Video by: W40th Media
We will call this place our home
The dirt in which our roots may grow
Though the storms will push and pull
We will call this place our home
We'll tell our stories on these walls
Every year, measure how tall
And just like a work of art
We'll tell our stories on these walls
Let the years we're here be kind, be kind
Let our hearts, like doors, open wide, open wide
Settle our bones like wood over time, over time
Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine
A little broken, a little new
We are the impact and the glue
Capable more than we know
To call this fixer upper home
With each year, our color fades
Slowly, our paint chips away
But we will find the strength
And the nerve it takes
To repaint and repaint and repaint every day
Let the years we're here be kind, be kind
Let our hearts, like doors, open wide, open wide
Settle our bones like wood over time, over time
Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine
Let the years we're here be kind, be kind
Let our hearts, like doors, open wide, open wide
Settle our bones like wood over time, over time
Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine
Give us bread, give us salt, give us wine
Smaller than dust on this map
Lies the greatest thing we have
The dirt in which our roots may grow
And the right to call it home

[@benjaminstpetefl]

A sensitive interpretation. I felt the soloist’s passions here.

[@richardkathrynsparks78]

Just gorgeous! Beautiful solo work.