The spirit moves in marvelous ways - Ode to Ellington - for SATB choir and jazz quartet; first performances with the Chamber Choir of the Bucks County Choral Society and the Eric Mintel Quartet on October 29 and 30, 2005 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Doylestown, PA.  I wrote this simple composition inspired by Duke Ellington's approach to words and music in his landmark Sacred Concerts for a program centering on key movements from those works.

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The spirit moves in marvelous ways,
it moves where it can come out and play,
it moves when we can't find our way;
so let us open up our hearts without delay - 
the spirit moves in marvelous ways.     (TL)