The poems of Ten Miracles were all written by children ages 4 to 13 living in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand (See the link "Sheet Music" for the texts.) Ten Miracles is recorded on Miracles, a collection of my music produced by Capstone Records (CPS 8619). Phillip George had this to say about the recording in Twentieth Century Music, June 1999):

"There's a little bit of the everyday and a little bit of the miraculous in Lawrence Moss's Capstone release, Miracles. The album opens with both in the somewhat titular Ten Miracles, a song cycle to children's poems for tenor, clarinet and piano. Like some contemporary Schubertian Shepherd on the Rock, Moss has a gift for turning the commonplace into something quite fresh, reflecting the youth of the collaborators, child poets - from Australia, the United States, and New Zealand - ranging in age from four to 13. Schubert comes more specifically to mind in the word painting in the lines "Ride the four winds" in the third poem (less continuous dotted-rhythm and perpetual motion figures as a refracted Erlking). The brief haiku-like settings continue in equally descriptive "Thunder" and "Rain." In the "Interlude" (unacknowledged among the list of cuts) and the sixth song, "November" the pleasing influence of Messiaen seems particularly apropos here in haunting clarinetist Edward Walter's abyss where "The Birds have all flown..."

Michael Manning wrote of a performance on ALEA III in Boston (Boston Globe May 6, 1996):

"...Lawrence Moss's Ten Miracles for High Voice, Clarinet and Piano, spare settings of poetry by children, caught my attention for a number of reasons. The pieces, extreme miniatures, are completely devoted to creating an environment for the poems, all of which are curious mixtures of the fanciful and the obvious. The result is a very direct, even terse, and altogether suitable painting of images and ideas that appear and vanish with a short attention span."

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