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A Quiet Room (SATB)
4-Part Mixed Choir
This piece came from an experience a friend shared with me early one morning. I remember her writing to tell me about a bird being trapped in her bedroom, but should couldn’t figure out how it got there since she had screens on her windows. She said it felt surreal, like a dream, and also filled with her an intense sadness and sense of longing. Went she asked me what I thought it meant, we went back and forth, our writing becoming increasingly abstract as we tried to capture an event that, in our minds, took on a symbolic a meaning. This text is taken from those exchanges.
This piece came from an experience a friend shared with me early one morning. I remember her writing to tell me about a bird being trapped in her bedroom, but should couldn’t figure out how it got there since she had screens on her windows. She said it felt surreal, like a dream, and also filled with her an intense sadness and sense of longing. Went she asked me what I thought it meant, we went back and forth, our writing becoming increasingly abstract as we tried to capture an event that, in our minds, took on a symbolic a meaning. This text is taken from those exchanges.
A Quiet Room (TTBB)
4-Part Coro Profundo
This piece came from an experience a friend shared with me early one morning. I remember her writing to tell me about a bird being trapped in her bedroom, but should couldn’t figure out how it got there since she had screens on her windows. She said it felt surreal, like a dream, and also filled with her an intense sadness and sense of longing. Went she asked me what I thought it meant, we went back and forth, our writing becoming increasingly abstract as we tried to capture an event that, in our minds, took on a symbolic a meaning. This text is taken from those exchanges.
Between Two Hills
4-Part Mixed Choir
This piece was my very first commission from my alma mater in Ashland, Oregon for their annual winter fine arts festival. The piece is constructed in two sections, with each part containing the complete text. My intention was to capture two different moods or perspectives, one peaceful and the other troubled, perhaps one from the outside looking in, and the other exposing the tension that underlies the surface of this otherwise pastoral scene.
Eu Sou Que Eu Sou
4-Part Mixed Choir
Pessoa fantastically embodies the existential crisis of adolescence. His characters live in a rich internal world filled with the heights and depths of feeling, but do virtually nothing with their lives. And yet, these feelings linger into adulthood and are so sincere that I cannot help but get caught up in their energy. His poems translate the inherent multiplicity each individual feels, the struggle of being nothing and all things at once, the conflict between actions and potential. For those interested in more of Pessoa’s writings, I recommend The Book of Disquiet.
O Beautiful, O Spacious Sky
8-Part Mixed Choir
I was originally commissioned to do this arrangement as part of an art installation that was a critique of American oppression, inequality, and the white washing of our own history. But when I spent an extended period of time with the lyrics for America The Beautiful, I couldn’t bring myself to do it with this piece.
I’ve often wished America The Beautiful were our national anthem. It’s not a song that glorifies war or proselytizes patriotism, rather the lyrics celebrate the natural beauty of this landscape and asks us to renew our commitment to the original ideals on which the nation was founded. I’m not uncritical of this country, far from it, and know we have never been even close to living those ideals, but they are still worth remembering and striving towards. There is still room for hope. That’s what I’ve tried to convey in this extended arrangement: a sense of yearning, even pleading, for us to remember the best we are capable of, and an invocation to the land itself that we may embrace it.
O Mysterium
Double Choir (4 Part Mixed)
Not growing up as a Christian, I’ve felt conflicted by my attraction to liturgical poetry. I love that Latin is a ‘dead’ language, its non-spoken aspect lends a sense of abstraction and mystery to the words, yet the text remains perfectly understandable. The traditional metaphors around the Nativity are equally compelling. ‘Ocean Star’ and ‘light born of light’ have a transcendent quality that compelled me since I first heard them, but the direct references to a dogma I do not personally follow left me cold. So I’ve appropriated my favorites parts of these texts for my own. The poetry references the most poignant metaphors and images from the Nativity, but removes any direct reference to Jesus or Mary. What remains is a poem in veneration of childbirth’s mystery. I have tried to infuse the text with music that will convey my own feelings towards our life-creating capacity: curiosity, awe, horror, shock, and deep respect.
Three Epilogues
Solo Piano
I was inspired by the Intermezzo, those small solo piano works originally meant to fit in between scenes at the theater. I’ve always appreciated how they evolved to have an independent life as standalone character pieces while retaining some of that original flavor of a ‘filler’ piece. My intention was something similar, an epilogue to a large work that embodies a certain character, while retaining a sense of wholeness unto itself.