Prayer

A WORK FOR SOLO PIANO WITH OPTIONAL ORGAN

A haunting, rolling melody that builds in fervor and urgency, then calms in reflective passages. Aptly named. A beautiful prayer.

"During a stay in Israel, I was part of a private tour of Jerusalem by a friend from the Hebrew University. We arrived at a place (called Dominus Flevit) on the Mount of Olives where we were given the same view of Jerusalem that Jesus saw when he came to the city on that first Palm Sunday. He understood in his heart what that ancient city had been through in her first thousand years, and what lay ahead, and he wept. This music is a prayer for the peace of Jerusalem. It is a 3,000 year-old prayer." - Paul Halley