Opus 1354
Out of Small Beginnings (2020)
for SATB Chorus and Organ
Text by William Bradford
Harvard University Choir; Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor; David von Behren, organ
Duration: 4 min.
Dedication: Commissioned by The Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, Massachusetts in honor of the Rev. Gary Marks, Pastor Emeritus, and in memory of the Rev. Prof. Peter J. Gomes (1942–2011), friend of the church and founding chairman of the Plymouth 400 Committee
Commission: Commissioned by The Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Publisher: Zimbel Press/Subito Music Corp.
Performance materials available from the publisher.
Out of Small Beginnings (2020) was commissioned by The Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, Massachusetts in honor of the Rev. Gary Marks, Pastor Emeritus, and in memory of the Rev. Prof. Peter J. Gomes (1942–2011), friend of the church and founding chairman of the Plymouth 400 Committee. The work sets words by William Bradford, the governor of Plymouth Colony, from his journal Of Plymouth Plantation.
“Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all praise.”
William Bradford (1590–1657)