I am the secret fire in all things

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Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Alto 1, Alto 2 — I am the secret fire in all things, scored for SSAA divisi and two soprano soloists, was premiered by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washbun, conductor, in November 2008. The Hildegard von Bingen text, translated by Wilson Hall (deceased professor of English at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia and dear friend), is a text that fosters many opportunities to depict the mysterious nature of God, His transcendence into all the human experience, and the hope, through vulnerability, that resonates in the gravamen for individual transubstantiation through the struggles inherent in Life's Stuff.This composition celebrates the transforming power of spirituality, the evolution of the human spirit when one amalgamates with "unknowing," and the ecstasy that saturates Life when one acknowledges the God Presence already within. Based on a text by Christian mystic Hildegard Von Bingen,I am the secret fire in all thingscelebrates the transforming power of spirituality and the evolution of the human spirit. Scored for SSAA divisi and two soprano soloists, the powerful melodic statements coupled with ethereal divisi make for an ecstatic and mysterious declaration of spirituality.

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