Orchestration and Tweaking

I corrected a discordance in bar 5, where the cello plays a run of sixteenths starting on F against a run starting on G in the violin. My ears aren’t would they should be, I fear. The corrected measure is:



Another fix, a transposition error, was in bar 20. The narrator should sing an E-flat on the last beat, not an F.



The rather rough string passage in bars 20-23 has been cleaned up a bit. I left out the 1st violin to get a dark, somber sound.



The last bit of the opening number as scored for strings:



The first violin reaches for the heavens as the Puritan labors hard, then the cello descends back down to earth for the grave, zealous life.

Here are the first 32 bars: