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Finally, the premiere of the long-anticipated follow-up to Gavin's
The Fifth Century, which won us our first Grammy.
A Native Hill will be Gavin's most substantial work for unaccompanied choir.
A concert-length musical essay based on early writings of American author and activist Wendell Berry; what may at first seem pastoral contains a powerful contemporary relevance - a metaphysical and even political force.
A Native Hill
offers meditations on how life can be experienced, with detailed descriptions of the minutiae of rural existence; as such, simple natural events reveal themselves as metaphors for universal truths.
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