Morten Lauridsen’s Mid-Winter Songs captures themes of darkness, longing, and renewal, finding beauty even in the coldest moments. Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands weaves ancient and modern texts, creating a deeply moving meditation on vulnerability, compassion, and our responsibility to care for one another. Eric Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me draws on Walt Whitman’s poetry to celebrate the beauty found in everyday life, in nature, and in our shared humanity.