Grade Level 1
Year: 2018
Type: Fanfare Prelude
Composer: Stephen Bulla
Program Notes:
This majestic opener maintains a forward motion as it takes the hymn tune (“Still With Thee”) and treats it in a
grandiose setting. The melody moves through all parts as a thematic basis for this arrangement.
The title is drawn from the second verse of Catherine Baird’s text:
Thou art the bread that satisfies forever,
The inward health that overcomes disease,
The love that lives through death, subsiding never,
My secret fortress and my soul’s release.
