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Ruth

for choir SSATB with semi-chorus SSATB

Duration 4' 15"

This work was written for the wedding of Ruth and Paul Ayres, February 2001.

Performers of this work include

Ruth & Paul's wedding guests / Steve Jones
Exmoor Singers / James Jarvis (Purcell Room, London)
Queldryk Chamber Choir / Paul Ayres (including CD recording)
Conspirare / Craig Hella Johnson (Carnegie Hall, Riverside Church & Lincoln Center, New York)

Recordings

this work features on the 4A Wreck and other works CD - click for details

Text

And Ruth said, I will go wherever you go and live wherever you live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. I will die where you die and will be buried there. (Ruth 1, 16-17)
There are three things that amaze me - no, four things I do not understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman. (Proverbs 30, 18-19)
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to know! (Psalms 139, 6)

Categories choral - mixed voices unaccompanied