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…
Purchase View Perusal Score J.W. Pepper Editor’s Choice 2024! 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…
Purchase View Perusal Score J.W. Pepper Editor’s Choice 2024 AND Director’s Choice for 2024! Read more HERE! Program Notes Time, like money or borders between one country and another, is one of those funny human-made concepts that dictate our lives…
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…
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.…
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…