Tag: New York Virtuoso Singers

THE HUMBLE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH (Psalm 37) for S.A.T.B. Chorus, a cappella (2011)

PROGRAM NOTE The passage “the humble shall inherit the earth” is one of the bible’s most widely recognized and noble teachings, originating in Chapter 37 of the book of Psalms. Using the original Hebrew text, my approach to setting it was to excerpt four other phrases from the same chapter to lead up to this…
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SUPPLICATIONS for Chorus and Orchestra (2002)

PROGRAM NOTES SUPPLICATIONS was composed in response to a commission made in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel of a work for chorus and orchestra that would center around texts from the Book of Psalms. To me, one of the striking elements in the Psalms (Tehillim), in addition…
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