With a Shining Like the Sun

Commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for the 2016 National Convention in Houston and celebrating David Ashley White receiving the AGO Distinguished Composer Award, this anthem employs a text by Richard Leach based on several scripture passages. This dramatic choral anthem has a major organ part along with its use of optional brass quintet, timpani, and congregation. The final section is a stirring, hymn-like setting for choir/congregation with descant of a text that celebrates God’s glory filling the earth. (The final section can also be performed on its own as a short, easy work for choir and/or congregation.)