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Prayer in F was composed in 2020 following the catastrophic 2019/20 Australian bushfires. The work was premiered digitally in 2021 by the MLC School Vocal Consort for Musica Viva's Strike A Chord competition, where the performance was awarded the Spirit of Chamber Music Award and the Vocal Prize.

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Text:
The bones of this land
are black and barren.
We hold our hands
to greying skies,
ashes rise and renew.

What has become
of the rich red earth
and clear blue sky?

And now we pray for rain,
for cool to end the heat,
from scorch to soak,
from black to green,
for the land to rest.

I pray that the land is
buried in summer water,
buried in summer rain.

We are
buried in summer,
buried in summer rain.