WMGSO Presents: Calling All Dawns by Christopher Tin

Calling All Dawns By: Christopher Tin Recorded at WMGSO's Our Land: A Choral Concert on March 22, 2025, in St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. Calling All Dawns is a song-cycle in three movements: Day, Night, and Dawn. Each movement corresponds to a different phase of life—life, death, and rebirth. Songs of joy, mystery, and hardship reflect the complexity of our mortality. Songs of the deepest, darkest sorrow accompany us through death. And finally, songs of triumph and exultation bring us roaring back to life, beginning the cycle anew. After the composition of “Baba Yetu” in 2005 as the main theme for the game Civilization IV, Christopher Tin wrote the song cycle Calling All Dawns by isolating motifs from “Baba Yetu,” varying them and developing them individually and together, in a wide variety of musical styles from around the world. The lyrics, congruent with the styles, are in 12 different languages for the 12 parts of the cycle. In 2011, Calling All Dawns won a Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album, and “Baba Yetu” won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists, becoming the first ever piece of video game music to win a Grammy. 0:00 Baba Yetu (Our Father) - Swahili 3:37 Mado Kara Mieru/窓から見える (Through the Window I See) - Japanese 8:37 Dao Zai Fan Ye/道哉反也 (The Path Is In Returning) 11:59 Se É Pra Vir, Que Venha (Whatever Is to Come, Let It Come) - Brazilian Portuguese 15:57 Rassemblons-Nous (Let Us Gather) - French 20:39 Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light) - Latin 24:48 Caoineadh (To Cry) - Irish 30:40 Hymn do Trójcy Świętej (Hymn to the Holy Trinity) - Polish 37:06 Hayom Kadosh (Today is Sacred) - Hebrew 38:47 Hamsáfár (Journey Together) - Farsi 41:33 Sukla-Krsne (Light and Darkness) - Sanskrit 43:48 Kia Hora Te Marino (May Peace Be Widespread) - Maori See the concert program for lyrics, translation, and more on each movement: https://www.wmgso.org/_files/ugd/ffa4... Video Producer: David Werner Video Directors: Jarel Jones, David Werner Camera Operators: Jeffrey Thomas, David Cleckley, Romel Punsal Recording Audio Engineers: Cory Lemons, Michael Gebhart Video Editors: Claire Hedgespeth, Sheldon Zamora-Soon, David Werner Audio Editor: David Werner Additional Onsite Crew: Michael Lee, Jess Bateman Graphics: Ibby Farooq The Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra (WMGSO) is a nonprofit community orchestra whose mission is to share video game music by putting on affordable, accessible concerts in the D.C. area. "WMGSO: The Album" and "WMGSO: The Album DLC" out now! https://wmgso.org/our-music​​ Support WMGSO: https://wmgso.org/donate​​ WMGSO merchandise: https://www.cafepress.com/wmgso​​ Follow WMGSO on social media! Website: https://wmgso.org/​​ Facebook:   / ​​   Instagram:   / washmetrogso   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wmgso.bsky.s... Twitch:   / wmgso   #videogamemusic #babayetu #civilizationiv