Premiered at the 2009 Christmas performances by Chicago Master Singers, this short setting of a marvelous and longlost text was an audience favorite. A very challenging piece for the chorus, with rapidly changing tonalities; there are two divisi spots in the altos and one in the tenors. |
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Text: The poem was published as a sacred song in 1928, but we have been unable to determine anything about the poet or when it might have been previously published.
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