The Alma College Choir and Orchestra will perform my Magnificat setting at their annual Masterworks Concert with Dr. Nicole Mattfeld. An excerpt from the program note follows:

“Mary’s Magnificat prayer haunts me as I consider our modern social justice failures. I was baptized and raised in the Presbyterian Church, and it’s particularly difficult for me to wrap my head around those who claim the Bible as a justification to other, as motivation for ignoring the humanity of marginalized communities, or even as carte blanche to demonize. I wrote this piece as a call back toward the social justice and compassion for others that I believe is at the very core of the New Testament’s message.”

Other works on the program will be Vivaldi’s Magnificat and Taylor Scott Davis’s Magnificat.