…Palestrina, Tallis, Victoria, Esmail, Morley and more!
What company I keep!
Director Jonathan Harvey and this warm-voiced concert choir commissioned me last summer to set—
The Want of You
A hint of gold where the moon will be;
Through the flocking clouds just a star or two;
Leaf sounds, soft and wet and hushed,
And oh! the crying want of you.
—Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958), Negro Poets and their Poems, 1923
