Recorded live and in studio session, the works on this recording include choral settings commissioned from four American composers for the 2006 and 2007 summer seasons, in addition to folk music, sacred settings, and significant poetry. The first two tracks were recorded in August 2006 and the remaining works are drawn from the 2007 25^th Anniversary summer season. The Desert Chorale is proud to give voice to these exhilarating new and recent works from composers John David Earnest, Z. Randall Stroope, Kirke Mechem, Judith Cloud, Bradley Ellingboe and Emile Desamours. First Day was made possible by a generous gift from Jane Clayton Oakes.

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The First Day  John David Earnest
The Conversion of Saul  Z. Randall Stroope
The World is Too Much with Us  Kirke Mechem
Words from an Artist’s Palette  Judith Cloud
Michelangelo: Ad Caelum Scalas Leonardo da Vinci: La funzione dei muscoli... Salvador Dalí: Dejad que mis enemigos...     David Farwig, baritone; Matthew Tresler, tenor Camille Pissarro: Bénis sont-ils... Georgia O’Keeffe: I Hate Flowers He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven  Bradley Ellingboe
There is Sweet Music  Daniel Gawthrop
How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps  Robert H. Young
Paiute Lullaby collected and adapted by Louis W.      Balard, arr. Linda Mack and Rochelle Mann
O Salutaris Hostia   Frank Ferko
On suuri sun rantas autius  arr. Matti Hyökki      Michael Boswell, tenor
Alélouya  Emile Desamours