All three songs from Prayers and Blessings are interconnected motivically, yet distinct in meter, tonality and message. Peace and reverence flow throughout. The version for bass-baritone was
The opening of Stanley Moss's poem unfurls the spirit captured in Zwilich's musical setting for bass voice, djembe, and piano: "I salute a word, I stand up and give it my chair, because this one Zulu word,
The monodrama Ahab is the third that Hall has created with librettist Caitlin Vincent. This ten-minute work takes an imaginary approach to the final moments in the life of Herman Melville's