Description: Emily Dickinson's poem on the fragility of nature, as well as our own hand in its destruction, finds a elegiac tone in this original piece from “Baba Yetu” composer Christopher Tin. Palo Alto High School, Tin's alma mater, commissioned this deeply melodic composition in celebration of their centennial in 2018.
Description: “I Shall Not See the Shadows” is based on Christina Rossetti's poem “When I Am Dead My Dearest.” It portrays death at its most indifferent--unnoticed, unheralded, unremembered. It suggests that forgetting is a form of extinction, too--that the finality of species lies not in the death of its last remaining members, but in the failure to preserve their memory.
Description: Emily Dickinson's well-known poem is the creative force behind this gorgeous and significant original concert work for 2-part and SAB voices. Commissioned by the Ohio Choral Directors Association for the Fifth Annual OCDA Elementary Choir Festival and First OCDA-OMEA Collaborative Elementary Choir Festival, lovely unison singing fills the piece with simple and tasteful harmonic passages, all painting the text of giving and helping others.
Description: Emily Dickinson's well-known poem is the creative force behind this gorgeous and significant original concert work for 2-part and SAB voices. Commissioned by the Ohio Choral Directors Association for the Fifth Annual OCDA Elementary Choir Festival and First OCDA-OMEA Collaborative Elementary Choir Festival, lovely unison singing fills the piece with simple and tasteful harmonic passages, all painting the text of giving and helping others.
Description: “The Saddest Noise” is a setting of Emily Dickinson's poem “The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise.” It begins the story of The Lost Birds in spring: the season of birth and renewal, and a time of year when bird songs flood the skies. But what is ordinarily a joyous sound is now riddled with sorrow, as the songs of the remaining birds remind us of the ones we've already lost.
