Silentium - Chris Maunu | 2025 National ACDA 11-12 Honor Choir, Chris Maunu, Conductor

Now published! Visit chrismaunu.com or any major retailer 2025 National ACDA 11-12 Honor Choir Chris Maunu, Conductor Live Performance at the National ACDA Conference March 22, 2025 Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas Performed at the 2025 National ACDA Conference, Chris Maunu's Silentium is a stunning setting of a powerful text. True courage isn't measured by our level of disclosure, but by the beauty we pass on to humanity. By keeping some thoughts especially close, it can be rich to express ones most inner self alone." "Speak not, lie hidden, and conceal the way you dream, the things you feel. Deep in your spirits let them rise akin to stars in crystal skies that set before the night is blurred: delight in them and speak no word. How can a heart expression find? How should another know your mind? Will he discern what quickens you? A thought once uttered is untrue. Dimmed is the fountainhead when stirred: drink at the source and speak no word. Live in your inner self alone within your soul a world has grown, the magic of veiled thoughts that might be blinded by the outer light, drowned in the noise of day, unheard… Take in their song and speak no word." Fyodor Tyutchev