FROM THE SONG OF SONGS (2002) soprano and piano, 20 min. The Barlow Endowment awarded me the Barlow Prize in 2001, which resulted in the commissioning of From the Song of Songs. The work was written for soprano Erie Mills and pianist Jeffrey Peterson, who gave the world premiere at Brigham Young University. My settings are taken from the King James and Revised Standard versions of the Bible, with some modifications. The first seven songs are passages generally believed to be the Woman speaking in the "Song of Songs." The final section describes the Woman's dance and is sung in both English and Hebrew.
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