In 2010 I arranged the Traditional Spiritual 'Deep River' for Brass Choir. It has been performed quite a few times over the last decade and is published through Cimarron Music Press. The arrangement utilizes a modern sense of tonality, with lots of added notes, suspensions, modal interchange and clustered voicings. This musical setting portrays the river itself but also attempts to represent the emotion of the subject who seeks their salvation and, more particularly (rather than allegorically) to this era, the collective voice of the millions of enslaved black people yearning for their freedom and refuge from oppression.