for SATB chorus, with harp or piano

text by G. K. Chesterton

Music from Duke Chapel Series
MorningStar Music, 50-0241

Written for the 2021 Christmas Eve service of Nine Lessons and Carols at Duke University Chapel., this setting of G. K. Chesterton’s beloved Christmas poem juxtaposes a haunting original melody, sung by the chorus, with phrases of the English carol “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” played by the harp.

Listen to Zebulon discuss this piece on this episode of the podcast Sounds of Faith.

Winner of the 2023 Weiger Lepke-Sims Family Sacred Music Award from the American Harp Society.

A JW Pepper Editors’ Choice selection.