How Can I Keep from Singing?

This sensitive setting of the beloved Early American hymn sounds angelic with treble voices!  Opening and closing with echo singing on the title phrase, the music beautifully paints the text with shifts from major to minor and from homophonic to contrapuntal harmony.  "My life goes on in endless song, above earth's lamentation.  I hear the real, though far-off hymn that hails a new creation..."