MARY’S SONG has a dramatic Prelude along with words and music by Angela Fox and is a tender song highlighting Mary’s relationship with her newly born child. The song “Silent Night” is adapted to be sung in addition to other text by Fox within “Mary’s Song.” Soprano Vocal Solo, Two-part Choir, Flute and Piano. Duration: 5:52 [the dramatic Prelude is 2:30 (optional) and song is 3:22]

                                                        Mary’s Song

Dramatic Prelude:  Narrator

The Shepherds and the Angels

(Based on Luke 2:8-20)

For appropriate timing of the spoken text, word cues are indicated in the musical score.  These word cues are in italics in the text below.

In that region, there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night.  Then an angel of Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see I am bringing you good news o great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.  This will be a sign for you—you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.”

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom God favors!”

When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” 

So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the child lying in the manger.  When they saw this, they made known what had been told to them about this child; and all who heard it were amazed.  But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.