More Love from Songs for the Journey

"More Love" is the cornerstone movement of Songs for the Journey, which was commissioned in 2010 to be performed alongside Gabriel Faura©'s Requiem, and utilizes the same sonorous combination of horns, harp, organ, violas, cellos, and bass. Songs for the Journey outlines and explores similar themes as the traditional Latin Requiem - love, faith, mortality, surrender to an eternal will, etc. - but in a less ecclesiastical framework, with poems and texts drawn from a variety of sources. In assembling the texts, words of a particularly personal nature were chosen to echo Faura©'s intent. The musical style of "More Love" is simple and direct and the message is positive and affirming, making it appropriate for a variety of performance settings. Duration: 3:15