Voicing & Instruments: SSAATTBB unaccompanied, with opt. Keyboard
Composer/Arranger: Siegfried, Kevin
A five-movement work commissioned by the Capitol Hill Chorale, Frederick Binkholder, Artistic Director, featuring texts by Johannes Kepler, John Donne, and the Psalms. Dedicated to Swiss astrophysicist Arnold Benz, a relative of the composer, this work is based on melodic ideas written to be overlaid with images of various constellations.
I. The Heavens Declare the Glory of God (Prologue)
II. Ursa Major I
III. Cassiopeia
IV. Ursa Major II
V. The Heavens Declare the Glory of God (Epilogue)