Project Encore™ Works

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.

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.

Cycle of Friends

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Composer: 
Michael Kaulkin
Premiere Date: 
May 3, 1996
Composer Notes: 

Click here to access Cycle of Friends, Parts 2, 3, 4, 5  
 
"exceptionally beautiful on many counts."
     -- Chestnut Hill Local, Philadelphia
 
"subtle and fragrant -- beautifully scored for both orchestra and chorus."
     -- John Corigliano, composer
 
"an all-too-rare combination of beautiful texts and refreshing, invigorating music."

Drop, Drop Slow Tears

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Composer: 
Jerome W. Malek
Premiere Date: 
March 21, 2008
Composer Notes: 

TBD

Fire and Ice

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Composer: 
Andrea Clearfield
Premiere Date: 
May 19, 2007
Composer Notes: 

This work was commissioned in celebration of the 200 Year Anniversary of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, America's oldest town/gown organization. Eight Frost poems (in the public domain) are arranged into four movements, each embodying universal themes, in a structurally dramatic arch. Movements I and IV are about art and the creative process. The second movement has to do with the nature of time and the ephemeral. The third movement portrays the struggle of the human spirit through the confrontation of opposites. The final movement questions what the art of the future should be.