Welcome to Anthem 32 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to [email protected].

This week, everything seemed to take a long time. I eventually found some words to use, buried in Psalm cvi (106) that seemed to lend themselves to an anthem. I didn't have many preconceptions about how the anthem should sound this week beyond the fact that it needed to be unaccompanied. I let the writing 'decide' where it wanted to go and added in some harmonic changes. Interestingly, I thought it sounded a bit like some of my other compositions so perhaps others will as well.

So here are the words I chose:

Words for Anthem 32:

Deliver us O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen : that we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, and make our boast of thy praise.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and world without end : and let all the people say, Amen.