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With a text by David Warner on the parable of The Prodigal Son from St Luke's Gospel, this dramatic choral work brings to life the ancient, universal story of reconciliation and belonging. The closely woven text and music feature an expansive range of expression-plaintive, exuberant, and resolute-before concluding with a transcendent coda that gives way to reverberating 'Amen's. With echoes of some of the minimalist elements of Wilberg's Requiem, as well as Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, and John Tavener, the work is scored for mixed voices without soloists, allowing the choir to function like a Greek chorus-sometimes narrating, sometimes participating in the action, sometimes reflecting on it-all underpinned by organ, or orchestra, or chamber ensemble
Text To watch with
Text To watch with him until the night is come. That certain man wills one thing: That all his kin may come inherit all: I am now all my own. for online perusal only Yet let its son go on alone. Sup from the spoils that fall to me—
This son of ours For this our son To all he speaks his promise sure: A woman searches for a coin— For one small silver piece To purchase each peculiar one Belong. Amen. for online perusal only
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