All in Azure Today

Peter Yost’s setting of All in Azure Today for SATB choir opens with a gentle, luminous texture, evoking the serene beauty of its initial imagery. The vocal lines are thoughtfully crafted to reflect the text’s contrast between inner peace and encroaching external turmoil. As the music unfolds, the harmony shifts to capture the profound emotional response described in the lyrics – the heart’s delight and the soul’s silent illumination. The piece gradually builds in intensity, mirroring the poem’s turn towards a more dramatic and unsettling vision, before ultimately returning to a sense of quiet contemplation.