PeterPurchase View Perusal Score Program Notes Barbie may be a toy, but it’s incredibly human to wonder about one’s purpose. Greta Gerwig explored the question “What Was I Made For?” so beautifully in the film that I wanted to take…
PROGRAM NOTES Once in a while, usually when I’m overdue for a trip to the grocery store, it dawns on me that there is literally food all over the ground. Like, just growing, for free. Amazing. And those are…
Purchase View Perusal Score Program Notes Time, like money or borders between one country and another, is one of those funny human-made concepts that dictate our lives but are fundamentally meaningless if we didn’t all agree to go along with…
Purchase View Perusal Score Program Notes When I was working on the words for this piece, I consulted with my friend Reverend Alex Reegan, who is a trans man and interfaith minister, to create a text that embodies the energy…
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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…
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 been heavier snowfall that melted and overwatered the vegetation,…