The American Spirit is St. Martin's Chamber Choir's celebration of American composers, and includes Cecil Effinger's "Four Pastorales" with oboe, Terry Schlenker's Kyrie, Randall Thompson's "Alleluia", a new setting of "The Lamentations of Jeremiah" by Timothy Krueger, Jean Berger's "Skelton Poems" with piano and Tim Sarsany's Salve Mater misericordiæ.