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Producer: Marnie Hall. Engineer: Judith Sherman. DDD. Cover from "The Book of Kells," c. 800 A.D., courtesy of The Board of Trinity College, Dublin. This recording is made possible with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support provided by Mobil Foundation, Inc. © 1988, Leonarda Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. The Florilegium Chamber Choir gives annual concerts in New York's major concert halls, presents a series of concerts in New York City churches, and performs special concerts as a guest ensemble of groups such as the American Composers Orchestra, New York Guild of Composers, and Continuum. JoAnn Rice holds degrees in organ and sacred music from the University of Tulsa and the Union Theological Seminary. She studied voice in New York and organ at the Eastman School of Music. Ms. Rice is organist at St. Paul's German Lutheran Church in New York City and Temple Shaari Zedek of Brooklyn. Thea Musgrave (b.1928) is a Scottish composer living in the United States. Her compositions were first brought to a wider audience by the BBC and through performances at the Edinburgh International Festival. Her works have been widely performed in the USA and in Europe at the major festivals such as Edinburgh, Warsaw, Autumn, Florence Maggion Musicale, Venice Biennale, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Zagreb. Judith Lang Zaimont (b.1945) holds degrees from Queens College and Columbia University. A former member of the music faculties of Queens College, Peabody Conservatory, and Adelphi University, she has been Professor of Composition at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis since 1992. Her music has been presented by the Connecticut Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Bay Area Women's Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (Boston), American Guild of Organists, Florilegium, Gregg Smith Singers, Dale Warland Singers and many others.