Swan-Cross Name

The music of Charles O. Beck

Psalm 1 (Blesséd Is the Man)

SATB with piano accompaniment
and optional flute solo and descant

Cover artThis piece was commissioned and premiered by the Presbyterian Church at Bristol, PA, for the ordination of their new pastor, circa 1985.

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“Qui cantat laudem non solum cantat, sed et amat eum quem cantat.”
(He who sings praise is not only singing, but also loving Him whom he is singing about/to/for.)

— St. Augustine of Hippo
Corpus Christianorum
Latinorum, vol. 39