Looking Toward Heaven

Howard Hanson explored two ancient hymns in counterpoint, while Florence Price used spirituals as inspiration, weaving them around into complex tapestries of sound. You can feel the expansiveness of a cathedral in Adolphus Hailstork’s joyful Sonata da Chiesa. And we offer three very different prayers: Carson Cooman’s meditative Prayer of St. Ambrose, Alan Hovhaness’s mystical Prayer of St. Gregory and Joaquin Turina’s fiery Prayer of the Bullfi...