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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
Program Notes: Hannah Cohoon is one of the earliest known female composers in the United States, and when I discovered this instrumental tune, it was unnamed and without any text. When setting the tune for voices, rather than adding a…
https://youtu.be/iIj-F21qiAQ?si=VxCJdfepwIn3VFVR Voicing: SATB with acoustic guitar Duration: 4 minutes Commissioner: Commissioned by Breathe Bravely Text by Jennifer Lucy Cook The trip up north gave us the room to think Room to breathe Room to worry But worry…
Purchase View Perusal Score Jennifer Lucy Cook · How Can I Keep From Singing? (Demo) Voicing: 2 Part Mixed Voices & Piano 2 Part Treble Voice SATB, SATB Choir, SAB, Unison Choir with Piano Duration: 3-5 minutes Other…