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John Muehleisen · The Gathering ("Come In")

When Dr. Glenn R. Gregg, Artistic Director of Kirkland Choral Society, approached me with a commission to compose a "secular hymn" for the group's annual February concert on the theme of love, I was intrigued with the project and its intended message. Not only would the text focus on this broader sense of community, it was intended to be both inclusive and invitational, to serve as something of an antidote to the current epidemic of divisiveness and enmity plaguing our society. As a symbol of community, Glenn had the vision of including a passage in which the audience would join with the choir at some point in the work to sing "a verse of the hymn" so that all present would raise their voices in celebration of community. To personalize the sense of invitation in the work, it opens with the four solo singers who invite the audience into into not only their own community of singers, but into the broader community in general.

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