About the Music: None Other Lamb, River in Judea, Crucifixus,

NONE OTHER LAMB
Poem by Christina Rossetti
Musical setting by Craig Courtney

A link to 320 of Rossetti's poems - have a look around!

https://www.poemhunter.com/christina-georgina-rossetti/poems/

About the poet - she had an /amazing!!!/ life!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti

I will say that my favorite CR work is "Goblin Market" - read it aloud, expressively!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market

The poem was set to music by Craig Courtney - composer of "How Great Our Joy" and many other fine pieces <3
https://www.lorenz.com/more-information/meet-our-composers/composers?itemId=Composer:697

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RIVER IN JUDEA (TTBB) - by Linda Marcus & Jack Feldman, arr. John Leavitt
This is one of Fr. Sundborg's favorite TTBB pieces - he asks for it by name!!

From Shawnee's website - (the publisher)

River in Judea

Series: Shawnee Press 
Publisher: Shawnee Press
SAB
Composers: Linda Marcus, Jack Feldman
Arranger: John Leavitt

An all-star writing team created this beautiful gospel-style song based on a secular text spun from the river-is-life metaphor. River in Judea is suitable for virtually any performance. Perfect for graduation.

About Jack Feldman: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Feldman_(songwriter)

About Linda Marcus: 
https://www.lorenz.com/more-information/meet-our-composers/composers?itemId=Composer:133

About John Leavitt, who arranged this piece for TTBB chorus:

https://www.halleonard.com/biographyDisplay.do?id=116

"River-as-life" metaphor - - - Uncle GOOGLE had way TMI for me - here are a couple of places - 

The metaphor, specifically: http://blog.locustfork.net/2012/11/the-ultimate-metaphor-life-is-like-a-river/

A bunch of river = life poems: https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/about/river_metaphor_poems

And, if you are a member of Cantemus - - there's this Emerson poem set by Nancy Cobb...!!!!

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CRUCIFIXUS - by Antonio Lotti
About the text - - 
The text is a phrase in the Credo, which is part of the Ordinary of the Mass.
What's a "Credo" - ? Have a look here: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credo

Texts for the Ordinary (unchanging) part of the Mass, in both English and (YES!!!!) Latin.

http://www.kitbraz.com/tchr/hist/med/mass_ordinary_text.html

About Antonio Lotti:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Lotti

I saw something interesting (taken from the Wikipedia article) - 
"Lotti is thought to have influenced Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Jan Dismas Zelenka, all of whom had copies of Lotti's mass, the Missa Sapientiae.

...so I looked around a bit further, and found this! Here's a link to another article about Lotti, which goes further into the "Bach Connection":

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Lotti-Antonio.htm

And, an image! I don't know about you, but I like to know what people LOOK LIKE!

http://classictong.com/files/image/artist/383/300