PROJECT : ENCORE™ Works

A Country Boy in Winter

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Composer: 
Greg Bartholomew
Premiere Date: 
March 5, 2004
Composer Notes: 

"A Country Boy in Winter" by American poet Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) appeared in Harper's Young People for January 24, 1882. This setting for men's chorus was completed in August 2001 and is dedicated to William Rust Bartholomew. The premiere performance took place at the 2004 Society of Composers National Conference.
The recording heard here is from the May 11, 2008, performance by the men of Coriolis, under the direction of Gregg Skalinder.
 

Adam lay ybounden

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Composer: 
Michael Djupstrom
Premiere Date: 
December 16, 2007
Composer Notes: 

Commissioned for inclusion in an annual Lessons & Carols service, this short SATB work is based upon an anonymous 15th century version of the story of Adam and Eve.

Alleluia

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Composer: 
Judith Shatin
Premiere Date: 
November 20, 2005
Composer Notes: 

 I composed my Alleluia in memory of the firefighter son of friends of mine. He died at the WTC on 9/11. My response was to create an Alleluia that has a combination of
power, anger and resignation. The singers in the Chicago Chorale heard strong references to the Dies Irae, and I retroactively agree: the intervallic structure I chose is reminiscence of that source. It was, however, an unconscious reference.

An Ever Fixed Mark

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Composer: 
Jamie Klenetsky
Premiere Date: 
February 25, 2010
Composer Notes: 

  "An Ever-Fixed Mark" was written for the new music ensemble, C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective for their February 2009 "Shakespeare Settings" concert. This piece is a setting of Sonnet 116. I composed this in an attempt to express the depth of what "love" means to me in the context of the sonnet, a beautiful text that describes a lasting love beyond all things.

Angele Dei

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Composer: 
Giuseppe Di Bianco
Premiere Date: 
May 24, 2010
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April and the Sun

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Composer: 
Jocelyn Hagen
Premiere Date: 
May 3, 2008
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Ave Maria

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Composer: 
Ivo Antognini
Premiere Date: 
April 30, 2009
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Blow! Gideon, Blow!

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Composer: 
Jason Heald
Premiere Date: 
February 26, 2009
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Bunda Kum Bun

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Composer: 
Sarinda Soponpong
Premiere Date: 
September 29, 2011
Composer Notes: 

 
In this piece, I combined two musical contexts, which are Thai language and style and western harmony. It is very obvious that the texts are not in English, but it is written by using English characters to make it easier to read for non-native speakers. Furthermore, most of the melodic direction, scale, and rhythmic pattern are not in western style. On the other hand, in term of harmony, it is obvious that this piece is harmonize in western style by using chords and some counterpoints, which Thai music does not have these two elements.

Confession

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Composer: 
Robinson McClellan
Premiere Date: 
March 17, 2002
Composer Notes: 

I chose this text because I think it asks us to acknowledge the minor misdeeds and omissions we permit in our everyday lives. So often we make small allowances for ourselves, fudge things that are difficult for us, or mistreat our loved ones in little ways. Most of the time we allow ourselves to ignore these things, hoping that nobody, perhaps not even ourselves, will notice. I think that those small things are often far more important than they seem, and I hope that this text, and this piece, will remind us to be more careful of ourselves and of one another.