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satb advanced

chorus & instrumental ensemble

advanced satb

chorus & ensemble
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advanced ssaa

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ssa accessible

Breathe in Hope

SSAA chorus & piano  |  6.5'

"What would we do if we didn't have the privilege

of being distracted?"

Closer to Home

SSAA chorus a cappella  |  5'"

"And maybe you'll return someday, somehow,

but it's time to go back to the life you're living now."

Completing the Circle

SSAA chorus a cappella  |  4'

"Stringing memories, quilting them tightly

in winter, with the days of grey and iron nights."

For The Daughter I May Never Have

SSAA chorus & piano  |  6.5'

"What can I say to you,
you who may never exist?"

Frozen In

SSA chorus, violin & piano  |  5'

"Once again, warmth that falls,

again, though our tracks fill and slow."

Half the World

SA chorus & piano  |  4'

"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."

Like Something Newly Freed

SSAA a cappella  |  5'

"You raise black wings like leaves, 

like the lightness of a song."

Listen

SSAA & Piano |  5'

"I want to say, wake up, open your eyes, there’s 
a snow-covered road ahead..."

One Blue Sky

SSAA a cappella  |  3'

"One blue sky, fragile as a robin’s egg,

covers us all."

Returning

SSAA chorus with audience refrain  |  5.5'

"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising

into dark bodies, they will return."

Ring Out, Ye Bells!

SA chorus & piano  |  4'

"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing

sweeter than the thrushes."

The Sallow Harp (coming June 2023)

SA chorus with piano or harp & piano  |  7'

"Who is left to teach me to play

those strings that ring like bells but cut like knives?"

Threads of Joy

SSAA chorus a cappella  |  4'

"A kind of silence, a light beneath pain."

After the Storm Passes

SATB chorus a cappella with soloists  |  4'

"On the rim of summer, the bones of winter under our feet..." 

And So

SATB chorus a cappella  |  8'

"And so to imagine it the whole world at peace..."

As it is in Heaven

SATB chorus & organ  |  6.5'

"Not my will, but Thine; and not what I desire,

but what Thou desirest."

Between Water and Air

SATB chorus & piano  |  5'

""This is where the longing starts, the yearning for another life..."

Charting the World

SATB chorus, string quartet & flute  |  18'

"We chart the world with every word we speak."

Flare

SATB chorus a cappella  |  3'

"Bright flash, big brother, I am catching up to you."

Footnotes to a History of Music

SATB chorus with soloists  |  10'

"When she unfurled the score,

a sequence of unfamiliar chords sounded..."

History's Stories

SSAATTBB chorus a cappella  |  5'

"Our voices rise and leave, traveling, raveling..."

How to Go On

SSAATTBB chorus a cappella  |  35'

"How can we go on, knowing the end of the story?"

1. How

2. However Difficult

3. To See It

4. Relinquishment

5. Requiescat

6. Knowing the End

7. Sometimes Peace Comes

8. When at Last

I am Music

SATB chorus & piano  |  6'

"Through me spirits immortal speak the message that

makes the world weep."

I Was Born

SATB chorus & cello  |  7'

"I hope you feel like all of my life

and you will."

If I Say Yes

SATB chorus & chamber orchestra,

SATB chorus & chamber ensemble or

SATB chorus & piano  |  15'

"If I say yes, it won't be to some unknown future,

but a yes to what we already have."

In the Middle

SATB or SSAA chorus & piano  |  5'

"Sometimes we take off our watches..."

Light of Late November

SATB chorus a cappella  |  4'

"Praise the light of late November,
the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones."

Lodestar

SATB chorus & treble soloist  |  6'

"Even a swimmer as strong as you
needs a ship sometimes—even you."

Perhaps

SATB chorus a cappella  |  3.5'

"Perhaps we may live an answer or illuminate a story."

Spiritus Mundi

SATB chorus a cappella  |  5.5'

"Let the gentle tether of our longing

keep us here..."

A Valentine for Hands

SATB chorus a cappella  |  4'

"simplest—touched—sounding—hours"

Vital Dance

SATB chorus & piano |  5'

"Why do I sleep, knowing that time will pass as I do?"

The Whole Sea in Motion

SATB chorus & piano  |  6'

"No language can describe the effect of the deep,

clear azure of the sky and ocean."

Without You

SATB chorus a cappella  |  6.5'

"We weren't done talking yet

So I am trying to call you using the morning glories..."

Charting the World

SSA chorus, string quartet & flute  |  18'

"The story line blurred,
the edge of sleep and the wake of yet another storm
."

Faster

SSAA chorus a cappella  |  3.5'

"If I want to go faster, if I want to leave,

the answers are already here; now I can see."

Flare

SSAA chorus a cappella  |  3'

"Through trees with bursting limbs, I am running."

Glorious, Glorious

SSAA chorus a cappella  |  3'

"I will honour Christmas in my heart,

and try to keep it all the year."

In the Middle

SSAA chorus & piano  |  5'

"Sometimes we take off our watches..."

Love is a Sickness

SSA chorus a cappella  |  3'

"Love is a torment of the mind,

a tempest everlasting."

Spiritus Mundi

SSAA chorus a cappella  |  5.5'

"Let the gentle tether of our longing keep us here..."

Vital Dance

SSAA chorus & piano |  5'

"Why do I sleep, knowing that time

will pass as I do?"

You Find Yourself Here

SSAA chorus a cappella  |  4'

"You see yourself reflected; you learn to love what you see."

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Charting the World

SATB or SSA chorus, string quartet & flute  |  18'

"The story line blurred,
the edge of sleep and the wake of yet another storm
."

If I Say Yes

SATB chorus & chamber orchestra or

SATB chorus & chamber ensemble | 15'

"If I say yes, it won't be to some unknown future,

but a yes to what we already have."

The Opposites Game

SATB chorus, baritone soloist & string quartet, or

SATB chorus, baritone soloist & piano  |  12'

"This day, my students and I play The Opposites Game

with a line by Emily Dickinson..."

Ring Out, Ye Bells!

SATB, SA or TB chorus & orchestra or 

SATB, SA or TB chorus, strings, harp & percussion |  4.5'

"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing

sweeter than the thrushes."

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Breathe in Hope

SATB, SSAA or TTBB chorus & piano  |  6.5'

"To keep our lungs from collapsing, we must breathe in hope."

Closer to Home

SATB, SSAA or TTBB chorus a cappella  |  5'

"You're closer to home than you've ever been before,

and you've never wanted to stay here more."

Completing the Circle 

SATB, SSAA, or TTBB chorus a cappella  |  4'

"Stringing memories, quilting them tightly

in winter, with the days of grey and iron nights."

Faster

SATB, SSAA or TTBB chorus a cappella  |  3.5'

"Now I choose to either move on,

to go as fast as I can, or be content staying here."

Glorious, Glorious

SATB, SSAA, or TTBB chorus a cappella  |  3'

"I will honour Christmas in my heart,

and try to keep it all the year."

Half the World

SATB, SA or TB chorus & piano  |  4'

"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."

 

Like Something Newly Freed

SATB or SSAA a cappella  |  5'

"You raise black wings like leaves, like the lightness of a song."

Love is a Sickness

SATB, SSA or TTB chorus a cappella  |  3'

"Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing."

The Opposites Game

SATB chorus, baritone soloist & string quartet, or

SATB chorus, baritone soloist & piano  |  12'

"This day, my students and I play The Opposites Game

with a line by Emily Dickinson..."

Returning

SATB, SSAA or TTBB chorus with audience refrain  |  5.5'

"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising

into dark bodies, they will return."

Ring Out, Ye Bells!

SATB, SA, or TB chorus & piano  |  4'

"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing

sweeter than the thrushes."

The Sallow Harp (coming June 2023)

SA, TB, or SATB chorus with piano or harp & piano  |  7'

"Who is left to teach me to play

those strings that ring like bells but cut like knives?"

Threads of Joy

SATB or SSAA chorus a cappella  |  4'

"A kind of silence, a light beneath pain."

What Are We Becoming

SATB chorus & organ |  20'

"What will you do with the last good days?
Before the seas rise and the skies close in.
"

Where Go the Boats?

SATB chorus a cappella  |  4'

"Boats of mine a-boating—Where will all come home?"

You Find Yourself Here

SATB, SSAA or TTBB chorus a cappella  |  4'

"You see yourself reflected; you learn to love what you see."

Breathe in Hope

TTBB chorus & piano  |  6.5'

"We have become experts at recovery.
I hope we become expert at Revolution."

Closer to Home

TTBB chorus a cappella  |  5'

"Home will follow wherever you go."

Completing the Circle

TTBB chorus a cappella  |  4'

"Stringing memories, quilting them tightly

in winter, with the days of grey and iron nights."

Echo's Histories

TTBB chorus a cappella  |  4'

"For her song and flight, Echo is torn apart..."

Faster

TTBB chorus a cappella  |  3.5'"

"Suddenly, the unknown world

is opening up to me now."

For The Daughter I May Never Have

TTBB chorus & piano  |  6.5'

"Teach me how to swallow a fate
defined by the absence of you."

Glorious, Glorious

TTBB chorus a cappella  |  3'

"I will honour Christmas in my heart,

and try to keep it all the year."

Half the World

TB chorus & Piano  |  4'

"Such a truth is woman’s right

to equal liberty with man."

Love is a Sickness

TTB chorus a cappella  |  3'

"More we enjoy it, more it dies."

Returning

TTBB chorus & audience  |  5.5'

"The geese you saw leaving, their feet rising

into dark bodies, they will return."

Ring Out, Ye Bells!

TB chorus & piano  |  4.5'

"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing

sweeter than the thrushes."

The Sallow Harp (coming June 2023)

TB chorus with piano or harp & piano  |  7'

"Who is left to teach me to play

those strings that ring like bells but cut like knives?"

You Find Yourself Here

TTBB chorus a cappella  |  4'

"You see yourself reflected;

you learn to love what you see."

two-part chorus

two-part

Half the World

SA or TB chorus & piano  |  4'

"Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man."

Ring Out, Ye Bells!

SA or TB chorus & piano  |  4.5'

"The rocks and stones, in holy tones, are singing

sweeter than the thrushes."

The Sallow Harp (coming June 2023)

SA or TB chorus with piano or harp & piano  |  7'

"Who is left to teach me to play

those strings that ring like bells but cut like knives?"

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