PROGRAM NOTESOnce in a while, usually when I’m overdue for a trip to the grocery store, it dawns on methat there is literally food all over the ground. Like, just growing, for free. Amazing. Andthose are the times I’m reminded…
PROGRAM NOTESOnce in a while, usually when I’m overdue for a trip to the grocery store, it dawns on methat there is literally food all over the ground. Like, just growing, for free. Amazing. Andthose are the times I’m reminded…
Available for Direct Purchase. Please reach out here! PROGRAM NOTESWhen I first attended a rehearsal run by Kirsten Oberoi and the South Shore Children’s Chorus, I was struckby how, to an untrained eye, the process might appear chaotic. And…
Available for direct purchase! For more information email jlcasst@gmail.com! https://jenniferlucycook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Arc-Herriman-High-School.mp4 Duration: 3 min Voicing: SSAA and Synth or Piano Dedication: With love for the Herriman High School Vivace Choir, with Andrew Howden, Artistic Director
PROGRAM NOTES Apathy is an attractive place to live. It’s safe, it’s detached, it’s padded like the walls of an asylum. But, it’s as dry as a desert. It’s empty and numb, and ultimately whenever I’ve bargained with myself, I’ve…
https://youtu.be/hOs-4154P8A?si=D-Zpt4vJrXrx_4i5 Voicing: SATB Duration: 4 Minutes
Purchase Composer Jennifer Lucy Cook, winner of the North Dakota State University Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition for 2022, demonstrates an uncanny ability to seamlessly blend words into music. The text is by Emily Dickinson, a poet whose profound and independent…
Program Text While this text has a historically religious context, I instead envisioned the text in the context of early immigrants to America. I was captivated by imagining these travelers, many of whom uprooted their entire lives simply based on…
Purchase View Perusal Score Voicing: SSAA w/ TBB or Synth Duration: 2 minutes Dedication: for those of us whose heartbreak has hidden behind monotony Lyrics: Over and over we fight, then Over and over we fix itMore like…
Oxford University Press 2024 Editor’s Choice Winner! PROGRAM NOTESThis song exists because I was once airlifted off of a mountain by emergency helicopter. It was a mountain I’d hiked before, and I’m an experienced hiker. But that year there had…
Purchase View Perusal Score Program Notes Nothing has brought me nearer to the brink of insanity more than my futile grip on life. Controlling, planning, and carefully crafting the next step continues to be virtually pointless, and yet I persist.…