When Choral Music You Have Not Heard for Years Stirs and Feeds Your Soul RANDALL THOMPSON

On Sarasota's Classical Music Radio Station (WSMR ) yesterday: the stupendous "Alleluia" by Randall Thompson.

I hadn't heard it in years- maybe since back in the 1980's when the St. Stephen's Parish, Pittsfield, MA sang it with grace and beauty.

Oh such food for the soul, just when my soul needed it




https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xAhPD9zAImI

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