{"id":3622,"date":"2025-01-10T20:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2025-01-10T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:12:36","slug":"do-not-fear-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/do-not-fear-the-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not fear the darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many describe 2024 as a dark year. So much in our world seems to be going in the wrong direction. In the choral piece Do not fear the darkness\/ Var inte r\u00e4dd f\u00f6r m\u00f6rkret<\/em> a different picture is heard and a different point of view is given. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karin Rehnqvist’s choral piece from 1992, in the composition Songs from the Earth\/ S\u00e5nger ur jorden<\/em> \u2013 with Night on our earth<\/em>\/ Natt \u00f6ver jorden<\/em> and Do not fear the darkness<\/em>\/ Var inte r\u00e4dd f\u00f6r m\u00f6rkret<\/em> \u2013 has been performed often and even more recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choral pieces were first written for treble choir and were published in a version for mixed choir in 2007\/2008 and in a version for youth choir in 2023. Texts by the Swedish author, poet and cultural critic Erik Blomberg (1894\u20131965), from the poetry collection “Jorden” (The Earth) from 1920.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do not fear the darkness<\/em> was frequently performed at Advent and Christmas concerts around Sweden in December 2024.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n

Oh, do not fear the darkness
it is the home of light.
Had we no dark skies over us
ne\u2019er we\u2019d see stars so bright.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep in our light ring of iris,
we have a pupil dark
for darkness is what bright light does,
trembling long to mark.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, do not fear the darkness, <\/em>
it is the home of light<\/em>,
Oh, do not fear the darkness, 
it is the core of light.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

Var inte r\u00e4dd f\u00f6r m\u00f6rkret,
ty ljuset vilar d\u00e4r. 
Vi ser ju inga stj\u00e4rnor,
d\u00e4r intet m\u00f6rker \u00e4r. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ljusa irisringen,
du b\u00e4r en m\u00f6rk pupill.
Ty m\u00f6rkt \u00e4r allt som ljuset,
med b\u00e4van l\u00e4ngtar till. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Var inte r\u00e4dd f\u00f6r m\u00f6rkret, 
ty ljuset vilar d\u00e4r.
Var inte r\u00e4dd f\u00f6r m\u00f6rkret, 
som ljusets hj\u00e4rta b\u00e4r.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n