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In the Darkest Darkness

In the Darkest Darkness Shines Your Light... #1120... Musical Haiku #59 in 5:33 for Wind Symphony of the 3rd Millennium™ & Chorus by © STEPHEN MELILLO IGNA 6 NOV 2015 Commissioned by Jens Schröer with the Bläserphilharmonie Osnabrück Dedicated to the Enduring Memory of Heinz Schröer and to all those who choose the pursuit of Light The score notes begin with Jens’ words. They sum this small work. “Dear Stephen, It’s the birthdate of my father, who died last year of cancer. At the funeral, I played with the small village band your work “Never Forgotten”… Since 20th of July, I had a great wish: Papa loved the hopefully words/the “poem” of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's new year wishes. It was written in late December 1944 in a Gestapo prison, as a new year approached under threatening circumstances. The threats were real, and Bonhoeffer would be killed within four months. Even in the worst of times, Bonhoeffer found reason for hope in God’s future that we may know in this life. Even when “evil days bring burdens hard to bear,” we may still know God present, and that ‘in our darkness shines your light.’ In Februray 1945, Bonhoeffer was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp and finally to the Flossenbürg concentration camp. It was there, on April 9, 1945 (shortly before the end of World War II), that he was condemned and executed on Hitler´s order, together with other resistance fighters.” And so, we begin and end with the Prayer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran Minister who was condemned to Death by Adolf Hitler for his involvement in Operation Walküre. He had written the following prayer shortly before his 9 April 1945 execution. “By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered, and confidently waiting, come what may, we know that God is with us night and morning, and never fails to greet us each new day. Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented, still evil days bring burdens hard to bear; O give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, you taught us to prepare. And when this cup you give is filled to brimming with bitter sorrow, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world you give us the joy we had, the brightness of your sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be yours alone.”