Alto, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone soloists, SATB chorus/0010/1000 /timp/strings.
English and Latin words.
Text consists of the Book of Jonah (slightly abridged), the hymn Laudate nomen Domini in Latin and in an English translation, and additional text by
Jay Macpherson.
Written in 1963.
Commissioned by the Festival Singers of Toronto, Elmer Iseler, cond.
Duration: ca. 33:00
1. Chorale-variations — 2. The tempest — 3. The whale — 4. Nineveh — 5. The gourd — 6. Chorale (a cappella).