“I used to compose almost every day when I was a teenager but find it very hard to carve out the time for it now! Every now and then I get an idea that I can\u2019t resist trying out, though, and this is what happened with Drop down, ye heavens. I was in the middle of finalising Pembroke College\u2019s Advent service repertoire with just a couple of weeks to go, and I couldn\u2019t decide on a setting of the Advent Prose to open the service. I left my desk to go and conduct the choir rehearsing and singing Compline, and came out a couple of hours later fizzing with ideas. I went and sat in my office, played around on the piano, and three hours later, had written this piece. I was really excited to hear what the choir thought as I had written it with their voices in mind, and so I typed it up and we sang it through at our next rehearsal. We ended up singing it at our Advent service the following week and recording it a couple of months later.” – Anna Lapwood<\/p>\n
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\nDrop down, ye heavens, from above,
\nand let the skies pour down righteousness.<\/p>\n
\nmy salvation shall not tarry:
\nI have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions.
\nFear not, for I will save thee:
\nFor I am the Lord thy God,
\nthe holy one of Israel, thy Redeemer.<\/p>\n