Mary Slept: SATB Accompanied

Margaret Rizza began composing in 1997, her contemplative choral music being widely acclaimed not only in the UK but also abroad. When commissioned by Harry Christophers to write the choral composition for The Sixteen in 2007, Margaret embraced a new idiom in writing, that of 'Classical Contemporary'. Mary Slept uses some words from the book 'The ascent to truth' by the Trappist Monk, Thomas Merton, and sets them to music. It concerns the Annunciation and the Incarnation.