Commissioned by Amasong Women's Chorus / Jill Crandall
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
Let It Matter is an urgent call to deep listening across cultural divides, crafted with grit, tenacity and passion. Its pithy, emotionally layered lyrics are punctuated with edgy internal rhymes and surprising juxtapositions, eschewing the comfortable and predictable at every turn. In its final, luminous measures, this song offers listeners a profound, open-ended challenge: "No one would ever call this easy listening. Listen anyway."