Choral; Organ
Accompaniment (Choral
Score)
SKU:
HL.49046475
Mixed
Choir and Organ Choral
Score. Composed by
Peteris Vasks. Choral.
Classical. Octavo. 12
pages. Duration 360
seconds. Schott Music
#C59592. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49046475).
ISBN
9781705102701. UPC:
842819108702.
7.5x10.75x0.05
inches.
Mother
Teresa liked to surprise
people she met by giving
them a small card printed
with five concise
sentences instead of a
calling card. The brief
text on the card
beginning with the line
“The fruit of
silence is prayerâ€
was a summary of her
vision of devout,
peace-promoting
philanthropy in poetical
form. In 2013, I created
a musical setting of
Mother Teresa's
“Prayer of
Peace†which was
commissioned by the
Schleswig-Holstein Music
Festival for mixed choir
a cappella (C 55851) in
the form of a densely
woven elegiac sound
stream. Slightly later, I
extended the work to
produce a version with
piano (C 56345) which in
turn became the basis for
a setting scored for
mixed choir with string
orchestra which was first
performed in Riga in
October 2014. In 2015,
the versions for piano
quintet (ED 22450) and
string quartet (ED 22723)
also permitted my musical
setting of Mother
Teresa's words to be
performed without choir
in two traditional genres
of chamber music. The
current published version
for mixed choir and organ
extends the work series
through a further
conventional scoring.