Performed five times by Chanticleer, March, 2011
“The individual voices—circling, crisscrossing—were so clear as to be tactile; you practically could trace them with your fingers”
-The San Jose Mercury News
The Boy Whose Father Was God was probably the most ambitious and most carefully constructed program that I ever produced. The idea was to tell the story of the most revolutionary of all historical figures, Jesus of Nazareth. My intent, however, was not to tell the story from a religious point of view (Jesus as God), but rather from a historical point of view (Jesus as Man). I soon discovered that this was going to be more difficult than I had expected, but I can say with absolute certainty that the hours of research, development and rehearsal created a musical experience that was exceptionally moving and memorable.
It is exceedingly difficult to find music that deals with …
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