"“Sanctuary” is a ritual of processes. The first and foundational one, essential to all others, is the fall of the night. The ritual begins in daylight and concludes under the veil of night. At the time, there is the gradual emergence of a sense of community. Initially, the audience and musicians exist as separate entities, but gradually, over the course of the ritual, they coalesce into a unified entity. Smaller processes also appear throughout: the movement from one end of the room to the other, the nuanced shifts in the strings' notes, the pouring out of water, and the crescendo of singing voices."