A Prayer of Beauty
(MATERNA (America the Beautiful))
Samuel A. Ward /arr. Robert Myers - Wheatmyer Music
A Prayer of Beauty
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A perusal of Kathryn Lee Bates poem, "America the Beautiful,"
reveals a prayer, a plea that God might guide America's fulfillment of the
noble dream that inspired its origin to make America as beautiful in
brotherhood as it is in nature. Her prayer inspired this brass quintet
setting of Samuel A. Ward's melody. Accordingly the music is set as a prayer
to lament the ugliness around us, to confess losing our vision, and to cry
out for fulfillment of Bates' dream that our "alabaster cities gleam
undimmed by human tears." The music is full of pain that reflects our
hurting peoples. There are moments of shock at how much has been lost so
quickly. And there are moments of sweetness and light in hope that God may
indeed mend our every flaw.
Robert Myers - S.D.G.
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