There is a Balm in Gilead

• Instrumentation: Unison, two-part, or SAB voices, and keyboard 
• Duration: 3:00'
• Suitable for choirs of all ability levels.
• Suitable for worship or concert performance.

Program Note

This piece is one in a series of familiar hymn tunes set with a contemporary harmonic palette, and presented so as to be performable by choirs of all levels with very little rehearsal time.  

​I've never been satisfied with the many setting and arrangements of this spiritual, as I felt the presentation always got in the way of the text and melody. Though this setting can be seen as busy, with its running eight note figures, I sought to create a hypnotic, translucent foundation over which the subject could float freely, suggesting the lofty simplicity of its sentiment. I hope I succeeded.