Stewards of Your Bounty (1996)
Chorale Prelude for Trumpet, Mixed Chorus, and Orchestra
For:
Mixed Chorus, Trumpet, and Orchestra: 2.2.2.2-2.2(I=obbligato).2.0-timp-SATB-strings (minimum 3.3.3.3.1 in players)
Mixed Chorus, Trumpet, and Organ
Year: 1996
Duration: 6’
First Performance: 21 June 1996 / Wachovia Concert Hall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina / The Moravian Music Festival Chorus and Orchestra / David Lewis Crosby
Text: Somerset Corry Lowry (E)
Dedication: “Commissioned by the Moravian Music Foundation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for the 19th Moravian Music Festival, 16-22 June 1996.”
Publisher: E.C. Schirmer Purchase | Rental
Program Note:
Commissioned by the this chorale prelude was inspired by this passage from The Book of Common Prayer: “Open, O Lord, the eyes of all people to behold thy gracious hand in all thy works, that, rejoicing in thy whole creation, they may honor thee with their substance, and be faithful stewards of thy bounty.” The cantus firmus, highly ornamented by the solo trumpet obbligato (which is used in both the symphonic and worship versions of the piece), is loosely based on the traditional Dutch melody Oude en Nieuwe Hollantse...Contradanseu from around 1710. The words are Somerset Corry Lowry’s familiar metered 1893 verse Son of God, Eternal Savior. Commissioned by the Moravian Music Foundation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for the 19th Moravian Music Festival, 16-22 June 1996, the work was premiered by the Moravian Music Festival Chorus and Orchestra conducted by David Lewis Crosby.