From the creative spirit of Anna Laura Page comes this volume of hymn tune settings that resonate with themes most deeply felt during the Lenten and Holy Week seasons: grief, suffering, repentance, prayer, and contrition. Each of these nine spirituals is a masterpiece in miniature, drawing us all closer to the cross of Christ at this most sacred time of year.
There Is a Balm in Gilead What Wondrous Love Is This Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? Sometimes I Fell Like a Motherless Child My Lord, What a Morning Surely He Died on Calvary Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley He Never Said a Mumbalin' Word I Am a Poor, Wayfaring Stranger