For SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied
By Eric Nelson
This setting of the best-known poem by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881) about the fate of being music makers is certain to resonate with choruses and audiences alike. Duration: 5:25
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
-Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881)