Whether a musician or just a music lover The Prayer Project has something for everyone! Songs include: This I Pray Untitled (Prayer of Worship) The New Lord's Prayer So Be It (If You Never)(Prayer of Surrender) Morning Prayers (Prayer of New Beginnings) In This Hour (Prayer of Restored Fellowship) Be Thou My Vision (Prayer for Guidance) Lullaby Prayer (Prayer for Children) An Evening Prayer (Prayer of Thankfulness) Remembrance (Prayer of Remembering) Nearer My God to Thee (Prayer of Brokenness).
Access to a thoughtful devotional guide especially coordinated to the album is included and a companion listening CD is available. Written in her characteristic singer/songwriter style this book is a treasure trove of emotive worship gold. A true concept album the book includes vocal solos a duet and piano solos all gathered around the spiritual discipline of prayer. This long-awaited solo project featuring piano and vocal talents of the inimitable Heather Sorenson is now a reality. Once again quiet pulsations a short silence-and the epilogue-a few fragments of the opening lullaby-somefinal pulsings-a few timpani beats-silence.I am honored to have been asked to write this work and I thank the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation for making this possible. As this recedes comes the plaintive cry of anguish again-unresolved. Now comes a last variation on the chant and a pianissimo echo variant in mutedTrumpets and then Woodwinds of the hymns and chorales. There are passing references to what was heard before. Following this climax the work winds down diminishing in intensity. This leads to a full-blown andaffirmative chorale. A sudden explosive interruption brutal and violent-the previous menacing muted trombone motif now unleashed. The cortege proceeds to chantsand responses that grow in intensity changing to hymn-like swelling and embellishments. Over this is a variant of the Clarinets initial 'cry of anguish'- but this time in quiet grief-turning into a funeral cortege. A slight pause-thensubdued but menacing sounds from muted Trombones Tuba and Percussion.
The music alternates between elegiac thematic references and the pulsations and accents of chimes and tolling bells. As it fades a sudden loud chime combines with high Clarinets in an anguishedsequence that cries out a musical pattern establishing and shaping the body of the work. Therefore I offer a guide to the musical gestures and terrain that make up the work and hopefully helpcommunicate my music to the listener.'Remembrance Day' opens softly with a prologue evoking a distant nostalgic Lullaby. That being said I will attempt a few words about my piece because I was asked to do so and the very special nature of the event in which this first performance takes place. Words about it are irrelevant unless they be lyrics or narration. Soliloquy for a Passing Century - Score-'All music be it 'abstract' or 'descriptive ' or 'popular' or 'serious ' must speak for itself.
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