Trilogy for the Christ Child

These three settings are lyric and contemplative, painting a musical portrait of the birth of Christ. "Calm on the Listening Ear of Night" sets the mood by providing a backdrop of the Bethlehem countryside. "All Hail, Thou Noble Guest" is a gentle, stylized minuet of thanksgiving and adoration for the Savior's gift of salvation. "Only a Manger" speaks of the incarnation -- the infinite shining through the finite.