Premiere: 7 June 2008 in Panama City, Florida. Jan Zimmerman, mezzo-soprano

Duration: ca. 3’30”

Instrumentation: voice and string quartet

Performance Note: Jan Zimmerman commissioned this Wesley setting from me in the spring of 2008 for her sister’s wedding that summer in Panama City, Florida. I set the full text – which, at seven verses, isn’t nearly as long as some of Charles Wesley’s other hymns – for voice and string quartet, in which setting it was first heard at the wedding. Later in 2008, I adapted the melody into the more straightforward hymn tune ZIMMERMAN.