i thank you God for most this amazing day [1]

by E. E. Cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

Here are three different composer’s interpretations of this poem by E. E. Cummings, sung by three very different choirs:

Elliot Z. Levine's "i thank You God for most this amazing day,"

Performed on May 15, 2008 by Sentici,

a student-founded, student-directed vocal ensemble

from Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington, NJ.

[Note:  The video in this one is somewhat amateurish, but well worth listening to.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopyueHVU4U&feature=related

[accessed 11 APR 2009]

Gwyneth Walker’s,  I Thank You God,

sung by the 2007 TMEA All-State Women's Choir,

accompanied by the University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JouB6jWWnM&feature=related

[accessed 11 APR 2009]

Eric Whitacre’s , “i thank You God for most this amazing day”,

Sung by the SBTS Seminary Choir.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrp6RYymuzs&feature=related

[accessed 11 APR 2009]