The Bridgewater Motets

This set of two a cappella motets was commissioned by Bridgewater College in Virginia on the occasion of the installation of a new president. The two pieces, Teach Me, Lord and Hold Me, Lord may be used either together or separately.

DH9301 - The Bridgewater Motets - $2.80 -

Complete Score

I. Teach Me, Lord

II. Hold Me, Lord

My first encounter with one of Dan Gawthrop's compositions began a love affair with his musical syntax and ended my quandry about whom to ask to compose a new work for one of my ensembles. The result was The Bridgewater Motets, two pieces which meld Jane Griner's text with Dan's sensitive music. Each time I revisit the pieces, I'm struck by their beauty and amazed at Dan's gift of subtlety. The imaginative way he flows from tonal center to tonal center plots an utterly exquisite path for the voices that moves singers and listener's alike.

Dr. Jesse E. Hopkins

The Edwin L. Turner Distinguished Professor of Music

Bridgewater College Department of Music

402 East College Street Bridgewater, VA 22812

Posted by Dr. Jesse E. Hopkins