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…
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…
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…
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…
Purchase View Perusal Score In this text, an excerpt from As You Like It, “Heigh ho, sing heigh ho!” is a celebration with an undercurrent of bitterness. When ingratitude and feigned friendship stings more than the winter wind, you need…