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AARON JAY KERNIS : Glorious Majesty

(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir & soli)

Sunday 27 October, 2013

Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN

VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, cond. Philip Brunelle

Associated Music Publishers, 2013 (AMP 8278)

... this 9-minute setting of Psalm 104 is described by the composer as “overflowing with the glories of creation, earth, and the heavens.” 'Glorious Majesty' is a work of contrasts, with sections performed by both large and small groups of singers, as well as shifting moods and harmonies, “to highlight the distinction between passages in the text that praise God and those that praise God's creation.”