Ensemble: mixed choir a cappella (SATB)
Duration: 5’
Year of completion: 2022
Commission: Ars Sacra Festival
Text: Psalm 34
Premiere: September 22, 2022. Central Choir of the Hungarian Reformed Church, cond.: Boglárka Berkesi. Budapest, Kálvin tér Reformed Church.
Note:
Who can’t recall a life situation in which they greatly needed someone to lift them up and comfort them? ‘When I am weak, then I am strong,’ writes the apostle Paul, expressing the great paradox of Christianity. Instead of the philosophy of strength, power, and superiority over others – perhaps most powerfully articulated by Nietzsche – we can confidently entrust our lives to the one who “will not break a bruised reed or snuff out a smoldering wick. (Kecskés D.)