Program Notes:

All Things Beautiful was originally a choir piece set to the eloquently reflective poem, “Barter” by Sara Teasdale. The text offers that “life has loveliness to sell,” and it recounts many wonders that can be observed. It urges one to “spend all you have for loveliness” without considering the price – to live fully by experiencing and witnessing all life has to offer. In writing this work, I reflected on the world we might live in if we all adopted this grateful view of existence – our connections with one another, our value of the natural world around us, our appreciation of the arts, and our experience of the divine.