"Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" - Elizabeth Poston, Stanford Scriven, Jeremiah Ingalls

As one of my Boston choir directors said, this unique, New England piece compares Jesus Christ to that most-American of trees, the apple tree.  Below are two settings of the text, one by Elizabeth Poston (the most common, it appears, and the first version I heard), and another by Stanford Scriven.

Here also is a link to the only on-line recording I could find of Jeremiah Ingalls' setting, which is my favorite because it is so energetic!
http://www.uchoir.harvard.edu/sounds/IngallsTheAppletree.mp3
(I first heard this setting, as is often the case, you've seen, at a Harvard Carols Service.)