In 1980 I began to study seriously the horn writing of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms. With a few possible exceptions, their horn parts were all conceived for the natural horn, called "natural" because it has no valves. Psalm of Faith in the Wilderness, with text from Psalm 63, presents this venerable instrument in a chromatic, twentieth-century context. The natural horn strives rhapsodically against a contrite choral anthem, representing the agitated struggle of the poet's soul that must have preceded the simple outpouring of faith embodied in the psalm. The piece was premiered by Robert Gower and the University of Miami Singers in 1983. I am honored to have had the opportunity to work with Tony Lee Garner on this piece as well. The first time was on the 1985 tour of England and Scotland by the Rhodes College Singers. Then, in 1995 I recorded it with the Rhodes Mastersingers Chorale. Tony died of cancer in 1998, and we all sorely miss him.