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Rhonda Woodward is not a new writer, but she will become even more noticed with this new setting of 'O God Our Help in Ages Past'. The words of Isaac Watts have been refreshed with a new a cappella tune that soars to brilliant heights. Energetic and strong, the music lifts the voices in joyful accord with careful craftsmanship and memorable melody. The substantial a cappella work 'I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes' is a bold and striking contemporary anthem for mixed chorus. The text is Psalm 121: 'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh help.' Powerful! Meditative and pensive, 'God's World' is a short choral recitative that sensitively expresses Edna St. Vincent Millay's magnificent poem musing on the beauty of the natural world. |