Opus 1512
A Seraphic Strain (2023)
for SATB Chorus Unaccompanied
Text by Phillis Wheatley
Harvard Ferris Choral Fellows; Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Duration: 1.5 min.
Dedication: for the inauguration of Claudine Gay as the 30th president of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Commission: Commissioned by The Memorial Church, Harvard University
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Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur’d, rise
To praise the grandeur of the earth and skies.
Celestial muse, my arduous flight sustain
And raise my mind to a seraphic strain.
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), alt.