Song of Loving Kindness

monody for chorus
2000

Metta Sutta, adapted by Jaime Manrique and Joel Feigin

Song of Loving-Kindness is a setting of an adaptation, by Jaime Manrique and myself, of the Metta-Sutta, the sutra of loving-kindness, one of the earliest surviving Buddhist texts. Commissioned in 2000 by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, it won top honors in the 2002 Waging Peace Through Singing Competition.

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