Robert Benford Lepley

To music

4- as sung by The New York Voices with Amy London on the recording 'Visions Within' MS1215. Chants drawn from ancient Gregorian modes are propelled into mesmerizing poly-rhythmic orbits by contemporary fugues and canons, and traditional motets are transformed by luminescent tone clusters reminiscent of impressionistic jazz, creating a gorgeous mosaic of sacred sound! Robert Lepley is a composer and a classical and jazz pianist who holds Master's Degrees in the areas of choral composition and theology. He says of Rilke: 'His poems' profound existential nature have the power to connect ancient symbols of the 'sacred' found deep within the human psyche with current forms of religious and secular spirituality which explore the relationships between thought and emotion, life and death, fear and love, personal faith and social justice.