Con Estas Cenizas, Señor/With Ashes and Sorrow, O Lord

Composed for use on Ash Wednesday and throughout Lent, this piece has been available only in Spanish until now. Well-known Catholic speaker and author, Diana Macalintal, recently translated this song into English for this new bilingual setting. Set for unison choir, keyboard, guitar, and solo instrument in C, the composer's idea is that musicians begin with sparse instrumentation adding instruments after each stanza, after the manner of orchestration in Ravel's "Bolero._x001D_