Commissioned by ACDA for the High School Honor Choir at the 2009 ACDA National Convention. composer Childs reaches new heights with this dramatic piece. The provocative text is brought to colorful life with soaring melodies, passages for both the women's and men's sections to shine, canonic moments, and all the way, close attention to textual meaning. The poem by 19th-century English poet George Eliot (pen name for Mary Ann Evans) is worth a read -- note: the sections in brackets were not used in the musical setting.
