Maya's Prayer for Peace

For SATB and piano, this original setting of Maya Angelou's poem Prayer is in a soulful 6/8. Beginning with a series of thanks, the piece has a slower middle section with a series of petitions, beginning, "For those who have no voice, we ask you to speak." Then the music of the first section reappears, and the piece closes with a prayer for peace. This is an unusual and powerful musical offering for any occasion focusing on justice and social concerns.