For SATB chorus & organ. First printing. Contents: Why Have You Forsaken Me?; The Spirit Helps Us and Sing a New Song to God. With program and biographical notes. Commissioned by
Celebrating our American musical heritage, Lehman takes several folk hymns ("Come Away to the Skies," "Wondrous Love," "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds," and six others) and provides a cappella settings
The long breathed phrases of this setting paint a majestic picture of Mary and Simeon. Hill has dedicated this service to Lichfield cathedral and the seventh century St. Chad. Hill develops a short opening