When I Find God

This unusual setting uses a fresh text excerpted from the book, Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values by Diane Weber Bederman (Mantua Books, 2015).

 

The music is very much a text painting, shifting in moods, melodic contours, harmonies, and rhythms, in direct reaction to the words. The doleful words of the opening passages give way to hope near the end. The music, which starts out with dissonant, chordal outbursts alternating with ambivalent scaler passages (crisis of faith/struggling with faith, seeking God), eventually gives way to more consonant, pleasant-sounding music (finding one's place in the world, finding God as thedivine spark within oneself). Duration: ca. 2:25