Sacred Water, Sacred Soil
Parts: SATB + String Quartet + Piano
Pages: 4 Pgs with Cover (Conductor’s score)
Description: 3:30 min. — What can we agree is sacred? What blesses us with vitality through no doing of our own? “Sacred Water, Sacred Soil” is a new hymn that seeks to find and celebrate the things we can all agree are sacred and needed for human thriving. This sweet, slow-moving piece has a few surprises like time signature changes and intervallic leaps in the lower voices. “Sacred Water, Sacred Soil” is excerpted from my secular liturgy “The Song Among Us.”
Originally premiered by Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble, March 2022. Rearranged with string quartet in February 2024 and premiered on April 21st, 2024 by the Denver Choir League.