This original setting of an anonymous 19th-century text is written in verse-anthem style. Effective with organ or piano, the scoring for chorus, harp, and keyboard makes it an ideal companion piece for

This traditional nineteenth-century folksong comes from County Cork, Ireland and is based on a Welsh sea shanty, "The Lass of Swansea Town." Written for and dedicated to Diane Loomer, founding director of

A beautiful, driving, repetitive piano accompaniment sets the stage for the journey of a runner - the air filling his lungs and the ground "pushing back with its slow spin." The ethereal voices paint a

"Sure on this shining night of starmade shadows round, kindness must watch for me this side the ground..." In this third movement of his song cycle Nocturnes, Morten Lauridsen's flowing music