Eye to Eye
COMPOSER’S NOTE
In 2009, I was asked to write a new work for a special concert at the Cadogan Hall, London in 2009 to celebrate the valuable work of the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital.
First established in Jerusalem in 1882, the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is now the only charitable provider of crucial eye care in Palestinian territory and provides treatment to all regardless of ethnicity or religion.
The work, with beautiful words by my brother Andrew, speaks of the different forms of love and peace flourishing when we see each other eye to eye.
DURATION
6 minutes
SOLOIST
Soprano
INSTRUMENTATION
Full Orchestra
YEAR OF COMPOSITION
2009
PUBLISHER
Novello
SHEET MUSIC
Soprano and Orchestral Parts
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In embracing
lovers return
tenderness
by gazing
eye to eye.
In meeting
friends renew
their trust
by gazing
eye to eye.
In caring
mothers guide
their child
by speaking
eye to eye.
Peace-making
between us
will begin
by looking
eye to eye.
Words: Andrew Hawes (1954 – )