Need to know the name of this Opera please?

So this opera was playing on CPR (Colorado Public Radio) This morning, and it was beautiful. My whole family was dancing and singing, and enjoying it greatly. They announced the name of it, but we got a rare bit of static as he announced the name.

But we did get some information about it after that: It was, at one point, nominated for a Grammy (I believed he said 2008, but I looked and didn't think I saw it), and it was in English. There was only line, a quote, that was sung over and over again a few times: 'The way you make love is how God will be with you.' I did a search for that on Google, but all I got was two pages on the quote and a bunch of unrelated Christian work with bits and pieces of that lyric. That's all I can honestly remember.

Are there any opera fans (or savvy Googlers) who can give me a hand.

?2013-07-21T15:13:29Z

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Going by 'this morning' and Colorado Public Radio (although I don't know how many 'flavors' of that there might be ... (side note: every fairly-decent classical radio station should have a play list out there somewhere). I didn't see anything much that fit, but you and the family know what hours you were listening. Good luck : http://stg.cpr.org/article/Music_Playlist

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Mark Sango2013-07-21T15:50:05Z

The CPR playlist indicates that they've been broadcasting this morning from 08:10 to 08:44 AM the choral "The here and now", for soloists, chorus and orchestra, by Christopher Theofanidis, performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus.

This composition was nominated for the 2007 Grammy Award in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition category.

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Birdgirl2013-07-21T19:46:13Z

I'm glad the others could help you identify what you heard.

However, I would like to clarify one thing: this is not an opera. It's not even FROM an opera.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/28/aso.hereandnow/

Yes, it is sung by a professional chorus accompanied by an orchestra, and yes, contemporary as it may be, it still qualifies as classical music. But an opera is a full staged production with costumes and scenery and some sort of plot (how ever odd or contrived). Think of operas as sort of musical theatre with classical music and no microphones for the singers.

That doesn't mean that choral pieces such as "The Here and Now" (the name of what you were listening to) didn't have a theme.

The recording is available on Amazon.com in mp3 or regular CDs
http://www.amazon.com/Del-Tredici-Theofanidis-Bernstein-Lamentation/dp/B000BFH27S

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine that everything that is sung (especially if it has sopranos in it) is labeled as "opera".

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