 An example of this can be found in his "Lord of Life" Mass commissioned by Terence Cardinal Cooke Archbishop of New York in 1980.Titled "People Matter" the composition is an arrangement based on a hymn by Dutch composer Fred Kaan (1929–2009).It is intended to be performed during Offertory and it begins with the syncopated rhythms of percussion and double bass where after two measures the altos are joined by trumpet "con sordino".