Rilla Paterson

Rilla is a former school science teacher in both Uganda and the UK
She enjoys music as a hobby, particularly choral singing.

Other works by Rilla Paterson include the children's
environmental musical play Child of the Future,

This piece was written as an entry to a Millennium Hymn competition run by St Paul's Cathedral in 1999.   But it is also be appropriate for occasions where a new beginning is called for, such as the aftermath of what has now become the great threat posed by the Corona virus to the future of nations throughout the world.

Download a PDF of the score HERE

See a YouTube recording of Hymn for the Millennium HERE