I later started improvising on the piano around choirs singing the piece in performance and recording, one of which Walton published a transcription of – a YouTube video collaboration with the Central Washington University Chamber Choir. While Duruflé used an existing, traditional chant in his piece, I used chant more as a general inspiration, while also echoing the form and dynamic range of his incomparable setting of the text. So when I set the same text myself a few years later, it was inevitable that the Duruflé would influence it, and it did. It will always be one of my favorite choral works of all time to me, it’s the perfect a cappella piece. I loved it from the very first rehearsal, and the first piece we read through was Maurice Duruflé’s Ubi Caritas. The first time I sung in a choir was in high school I went to a music high school in Norway and choir was obligatory.
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