Upon reading Edward Esch's poem Light and Gold, composer Eric Whitacre was immediately struck by its genuine, elegant simplicity. He asked the celebrated American poet Charles Anthony Silvestri to

An important contribution to today's choral repertoire, this deeply moving tribute to the children of Bosnia was given national and international prominence with Weston Noble and the Luther College Nordic

An absolutely stunning setting of this beloved folksong.  This arrangement appears on festival lists year after year in its original mixed voicing, and is destined to do the same revoiced for treble