O Clap Your Hands

This fast, energetic work surges forward with constant syncopation, highly influenced by both jazz and gospel idioms. It mixes a treble solo, pandiatonicism with chromatic harmonies over repeated melodic lines and texts, mixed meters, handclaps, and explosive piano passages to create a truly unique but accessible musical work that builds to a climactic and resounding ending. The text from Psalm 47 has been translated and adapted.