Well-Traveled

A song for the day. A friend of mine who is a singer had learned this last year, and I was smitten with it. The composer is an American; he wrote this setting to the Paschal acclamation in the style of an Appalachian folk melody. It's one of those deceptively simple tunes that uses only exactly the notes it needs, if I might describe it that way. I have a great admiration for compositions that can balance a strong melody with extreme simplicity--this one is wonderfully satisfying in that regard. And the choir here seems to me to sing it exactly as it should be sung.

(It seems perhaps a bit unmannerly to post this when the composer and the choir here are Orthodox, and Orthodox Easter is quite a bit later than ours this year, meaning that they are still in fasting season. I hope I might be forgiven for my precipitous enthusiasm in regards to a lovely song.)