This World is Not Conclusion

This anthem, scored for SATB and piano sets the poem by Emily Dickinson to music. Dickinson's poem presents humanity's hunger to know the truth about the existence of an afterlife. Many people believe, but also doubt that something exists beyond death, invisible as music, but just as real as sound. This "other world" invites us to come closer, but confounds us, leading to the tension between faith and doubt. Faith stumbles, and no drug can numb the toothache of doubt. The anthem ends as it begins, with the conviction, the faith, that our time on earth isn't all there is. The piano accompaniment can serve however needed, just for rehearsal purposes, or when and where it might be needed during a performance.