Paul Mealor’s The Light of Paradise draws inspiration from the extraordinary life of Margery Kempe, the medieval mystic whose dictated autobiography is considered the first of its kind written by a woman, and the first autobiography in the English language. Scored for choir and saxophone quartet, the hour-long work unfolds across fourteen “devotions,” echoing the Stations of the Cross and tracing both Kempe’s physical pilgrimages and her inner spiritual journey.