About Setting One‪.‬

The music for LBW Setting One was written in 1974-75 at the request of the Liturgical Music Committee (LMC) of the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship (ILCW).' I accepted this composing assignment in a spirit of duty and obligation as well as enthusiasm, but with only a dim awareness of all that would be involved in its production. The developments leading to the publication of LBW in 1978 have been largely documented in several other places. The composition of Setting One of the Holy Communion has its own microhistory that, for me as the composer, begins with the earliest meetings of the LMC in 1967-68.