Vividly capturing the imagery of Matthew Arnold's poetry, this work was commissioned by the Yale Glee Club. With piano.
DetailsPublisher: Boosey & HawkesPublication Date: 12/2006Credits: Dominick ArgentoPages: 13Length: 10.50 in.Width: 6.75...
This motet was commissioned by the Yale Glee Club with a text from the Gospel according to St John, chapter 8:10-11 where Jesus tells the woman taken in adultery to go and sin no more. This 6-minute a cappella motet is distinguished by its full...
The text of The Dark Hills by Edwin Arlington Robinson offers a beautiful picture of evening settling on the hills, or of the quiet that comes at that moment just before dark falls completely over the land. As the choir sings of hope for the end of...
Ned Rorem has been described as “The world's best composer of art songs,” and these two contrasting and compelling works for chorus affirm this description. “Dirge” poignantly expresses the pain of unquiet love, while...
Winner of the 2009 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition, this elegant work offers an Old English text with peaceful imagery conveying a sense of compassion, and a haunting, sensitive melody that flows effortlessly from voice to voice....
Written in May 2005, when the composer was living in the Netherlands, this piece is a set of four songs for a cappella chorus. Each movement addresses one direction of the wind, implying one season of the year--from the gentle spring breezes of the...
Zephyr Rounds was the winner of the 2007 Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition. The asymmetry of the 13/8 time signature creates a bustling feeling of perpetual motion, blossoming into a thick texture of contrapuntal exchanges and melodic...