Eric Holtan - Paulus: Far In The Heavens Choral Music Of Stephen Paulus - True Concord Voices & Orchestra

2016 Grammy Award winner - Best Contemporary Classical Composition

True Concord's Pauls commission wins Grammy - story.

St. Paul, Minn., composer Stephen Paulus finished editing his new piece, "Prayers and Remembrances." Then six weeks later, he had a massive stroke and died in the fall of 2014. But his music lives on, as he won his first Grammy Award in February 2016, for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

The trophy was presented to Patty Paulus, his widow, in the pre-telecast at the Los Angeles Convention Center. "I don't know how to describe this. We're toasting Stephen with champagne. And we're perpetually smiling," she told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Stephen Paulus, who was 65 when he died, was Minnesota's most prolific classical composer, writing opera, oratorio, symphonic pieces and choral selections. He created nearly 60 works for symphony or opera and close to 200 choral pieces. "Pilgrim's Hymn," his best-known choral work, was sung at the funerals of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.

Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)

Prayers and Remembrances

1. They Are All Gone

2. Lord, Make Me An Instrument

3. Music, When Soft Voices Die

4. Great Spirit

5. In Beauty It Walks

6. Eternity

7. Grant That We May Love

8. Nune dimitis

9. The Incomprehensible

10. I Have Called You By name

11. Little Elegy

12. When Music Sounds

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