Video Information

• Choir: Bournemouth Male Voice Choir
• Piece: We Rise Again
• Composer:  Leon Dubinsky
• Arranger:  Stephen Smith (Orchestral parts by David East)
• Conductor:  Mark Burstow
• Voices:  TTBB
• Sheet Music:   cypresschoral.com/Canada/...  
• Genres: Classical, Contemporary, Choral
• Bournemouth Male Voice Choir at St Ambrose Church in Westbourne.
  
  We Rise Again is by Leon Dubinsky, who grew up in Sydney and now lives with his wife and children on a seaside property in Cape Breton's Englishtown.
  
  Writte...  moreBournemouth Male Voice Choir at St Ambrose Church in Westbourne.
  
  We Rise Again is by Leon Dubinsky, who grew up in Sydney and now lives with his wife and children on a seaside property in Cape Breton's Englishtown.
  
  Written in 1984 as a hopeful tune for the musical The Rise and Follies of Cape Breton Island during a severe economic downturn, it begins:
  
  When the waves roll on over the waters
  And the ocean cries
  We look to our sons and daughters
  To explain our lives
  As if a child could tell us why
  That as sure as the sunrise
  As sure as the sea
  As sure as the wind in the trees
  We rise again in the faces of our children
  We rise again in the waves out on the ocean
  And we rise again....
  
  The day he wrote "Rise Again," Dubinsky recalls, he was watching his ailing father observing his grandchildren playing in a swimming pool. Dubinsky's father had immigrated to Canada from the Ukraine, settling in Cape Breton; he would die a year later, in 1985.
  The words just came to him,
  
  Dubinsky says, explaining that "waves roll on over the waters / and the ocean cries" refers to the cycles of immigration and the struggles of the uprooted who must begin anew in a strange land.
  
  The immigrant's son—Leon Dubinsky—grew up at Temple Sons of Israel in Sydney, where he developed his love of music while singing in the Sons of Israel choir.  less