Mack Wilberg The Prodigal

for SATB and organ or orchestra 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

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Commissioned by University of Southern Mississippi Choral Activities, Hattiesburg, MS, conductors Gregory Fuller, John Flanery, and Webb Parker The Prodigal David Warner (based on Luke 15) MACK WILBERG SOPRANO ALTO Expressively, as when telling a story q. = 54 TENOR BASS ORGAN PEDAL Expressively, as when telling a story q. = 54 8' only p sempre p for online perusal only 7 mf 13 f dim. © Oxford University Press 2016 Printed in Great Britain OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MUSIC DEPARTMENT, GREAT CLARENDON STREET, OXFORD OX2 6DP The Moral Rights of the Composer have been asserted. Photocopying this copyright material is ILLEGAL.

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