Just as The Dawn's Awake!, a poem by early twentieth-century poet Otto Bohanan, uses personification and vivid imagery to describe the beauty of the sunrise, Laura Farnell's music conveys the hope

A longtime standard for tenor-bass choirs, this original concert work in neoclassical style with a Latin text and optional string quartet is an excellent teaching piece as well as a very effective

There are many great teaching moments in this excellent original setting of the traditional Latin text. Using the style of the late Baroque period, with limited ranges in each part, the work has lots of