Children's voices: A promise in that song

UU World: The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association, Sep/Oct 2003 by Smith-Dalton, Maggi

In matching blue-and-black, the choristers rise to sing at Sunday's Service of the Living Tradition. In the cavernous FleetCenter arena, before more than 9,000 fellow Unitarian Universalists, their joined voices float like a remembered dream, singing of "the beauty of the Earth"-these bright, wonderful children are embodiments of our ever-evolving, organic living tradition.

"Oh let us sing our song, and let our song be heard," they sang, fittingly, in performing "Promise of Living" by Aaron Copland and Horace Everett, "Let's sing our song with our hearts, a promise in that song."

Maggi Smith-Dalton, a vocalist, writer, bard, and teacher, is a member of the North Parish of North Andover, Massachusetts.