"Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars" - Jonathan Dove

9/23/2012:  UPDATE!!  Someone has posted the recording I have of this song!  (I prefer it to the recording posted previously. : )

Don't you just love that?  Aahh. : )

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I first heard this song at The 100th Annual Christmas Carol Services, performed by the Harvard University Choir.  (For the purists - it isn't strictly a Christmas song, so you can listen to it in January!)  I was stunned by the beauty and majesty of the music.  There were so many parts that I loved then, especially the "aa-ah"s in the phrase that begins at 3:30 - they sounded as though light was flooding the chapel in waves, from a great fountain.  As I have listened to it repeatedly, I have fallen in love with the successive repetition of "that maketh the seven stars" by each part (beginning 4:21).*

And speaking of falling in love, this song actually helped me reconnect with the love of my life, whom I married the following year :)  It reminded me of music by Eric Whitacre, a favorite composer, so I e-mailed a link to a recording of it.  My gesture kindled the hope that we could get back together, and we did just that a week later!

* In my recording of this song, which is from the Salisbury Cathedral Choir, some of these parts are sung by soloists.