Few people today are aware that, in addition to film scores, orchestral works and chamber music, Miklós Rózsa also wrote choral works. The best known of these is the motet “To Everything There Is a Season” op. 21 for mixed choir, based on a text from the third chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Rózsa chose this text in 1945 in response to the impending end of World War II and added a joyful “Alleluia” to the last verse, “A time for war, and a time for peace.” Three years later, the motet was p...