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GRATIA PLENA

Composer: Alfred V. Fedak

Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: GRATIA PLENA
Composer: Alfred V. Fedak (1988)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Incipit: 67132 12756 71665
Key: d minor
Copyright: Music © 1994 Selah Publishing Co., Inc.

Texts

Mary, Woman of the Promise

Mary, woman of the promise,
bearer of your people's dreams,
through your open, willing spirit
waters of God's goodness streamed.

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