Winter Solstice (2025) for chorus and organ was written for the 116th Annual Christmas Carol Services of The Memorial Church, Harvard University, December 2025.

We are going down now into darkness
And the plume-deep night, longest of all,
Looms just ahead. Each day long shadowy waves
Wash deeper on shores of light
But the high-water mark still stands
As we await high darkness,
Deep night spread out on our sands
Until no light is left;
And then at the bend of the year
Slow ebbing springs day free
As we, washed bright from night by night,
Leap shouting, bare, exultant
Over glittering sands of light.

Katherine Woodman (1925–2007)