Uncertainty often begins with ripples. We sense something. Something feels different. Saro Lynch-Thomason’s More Waters Rising sets our anticipation of “harder times” to music through the use of call and response type textures until we reach the final chorus set in a four-part, hymn-like resolve. Lynch-Thomason’s work signals the onset of tides - whether personal, social or environmental - that demand collective strength to weather the storm.

    I will wade through the waters, this I know.
    I will rebuild the mountains, this I know.