How to Praise (2013) 3'
Text and music commissioned by the Rhodes Trust for their 110th Anniversary Service. Text copyright Christian Campbell, used with permission.
Premiered in Harris Manchester Chapel, Oxford, 9/20/13. Self-published (Morningside Press, ASCAP).
How to Praise
Teach me to praise, tree.
Tell me if my fingers should splay
like the sun, on the altars
of the hands. Let me go on like the bee,
when all my living and dying
will be praise.
- Christian Campbell
Listen:
A glimpse of the venerable tree beside the Cloisters at New College, Oxford