The movement presents three statements of the hymn tune, each varied from the other. The second statement portrays the repetitive physical labor of plowing, and the final statement uses expanding and contracting instrumental voices, as well as the recorded sound of an old tractor, to illustrate the coming of mechanized farming. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock. For the spirit of the living was in the wheels.
Generations come and generations go, while the earth endures forever.
The wind blows south, the wind blows north, round and round it goes and returns full circle. Naxos 8.559079 - featuring two works by Samuel Jones recorded in April and May 2000 by the Amarillo Symphony. Roundings is also the subject of a documentary and extensive web site created by KACV-TV . The video was produced by KACV-TV and has aired in over 150 cities around the United States. This CD is available from the Amarillo Symphony .