All your anxiety (arr. Jonathan Rowsell) Featuring the Canadian Staff Band

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All Your Anxiety is a reflective and expressive work for brass band inspired by Edward Joy’s sacred song of the same name. Drawing deeply from the hymn’s text and message, the piece explores the tension between human unease and the promise of peace found in faith.

The work opens with a distinctive eighth-note figure in the euphonium that immediately establishes an unsettled character. Wide intervallic leaps and atypical slur groupings evoke a sense of fragility and uncertainty, musically portraying the weight of sorrow and care described in the opening verse of the hymn. This motivic material becomes the foundation of the entire arrangement, reappearing in varied forms as counter-melody, accompaniment, and featured solo lines across the ensemble.

As the piece unfolds, the music gradually broadens and warms, reflecting the invitation of the text to “come to the cross” and leave one’s burdens behind. Moments of lyricism and calm contrast with the earlier unease, leading toward a more settled and hopeful conclusion that mirrors the refrain’s assurance: “Never a burden He cannot bear, never a friend like Jesus.”