About Me

Northfield, Minnesota, United States
In 2000 composer Justin Merritt (bn.1975) was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolph Nissim Award for Janus Mask for Orchestra. He is also the winner of many other awards including the 2006 Polyphonos Prize, the 2000 Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Competition Award for The Day Florestan Murdered Magister Raro and the 2001 Kuttner String Quartet Competition for Ravening. Other works include music for orchestra, ballet, and opera. He has also worked as composer and musical director in dozens of theater productions, ranging from Shakespeare to DaDa. Justin is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition & Theory at St. Olaf College. He received his Bachelors in Music from Trinity University and a Masters and Doctorate in Music from Indiana University. He studied composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandström, Claude Baker, Timothy Kramer, Don Freund, and electronic and computer music with Jeffrey Hass.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Lamentations (Choral)

for SATB choir a cappella

O Lord

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness
Surely against me is he turned
He turneth his hand against me
My flesh and my skin hath he made old
He hath broken my bones
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone
He hath made my paths crooked
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces
He hath made me desolate
He hath filled me with bitterness
He hath broken my teeth with gravel stones
He hath covered me with ashes

Their heart cried unto the Lord,
let tears run down like a river day and night:

Arise, cry out in the night:
lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children,
that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever;
thy throne from generation to generation.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
and forsake us so long time?



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