Motet notes - Primosch

Today we offer a motet by our friend James Primosch. He was on the faculty at Penn, and this motet was the fifth of his motets that we premiered or performed. Today's piece is a setting of a melancholy poem full of yearning by Anne Porter. Mr. Primosch's rich harmonic language is perfectly suited to the sweet sadness of this poem and the ecstasy of the passage about Jerusalem is a perfect climax to this touching and beautiful work.

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