“Edie Hill, one of the Twin Cities’ best known creators, has been named [the Rose Ensemble’s] composer-in-residence, and the first of two works intended for the ensemble was given its world premiere… Her ‘Alma Beata et Bella,’ a delicate setting of words by a 15th Century Italian poet, grew softly in slow and patient scales, and at its end, bloomed harmonically into a gentle kind of ecstasy, one that many saints have surely known.”
