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A mercurial musing on music’s mysterious source |
Philip Dacey |
SATB, orchestra |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/or_a_musician_0.mp3 |
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Five Carl Sandburg songs, full of wistfulness, gumption and glee |
Carl Sandburg |
High voice, piano |
MA |
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Five songs embodying generosity, grace and awe |
Silsbee ~ Emerson ~ Hafiz ~ Alexander ~ White |
Low voice
Medium voice
High voice
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ME - MA |
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Handbell choir
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-a-perfect-circle.mp3 |
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A little sleep-song, sung to the cadence of a gentle rain |
Langston Hughes |
SATB a cappella
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/april_rain_song.mp3 |
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A rapturous call to freedom and risk |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
SSATB, piano
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/climb.mp3 |
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St. Cecilia's words to King David after his fall from grace |
Elizabeth Alexander |
SATB a cappella
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/create_a_song_once_more.mp3 |
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A sweeping embrace of all heart-opening things: poems, mistakes, rain... |
Dawna Markova |
SSA, cello, piano |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/Doors-Elizabeth%20Alexander.mp3 |
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A gutsy celebration of life's rough lessons |
Pesha Gertler |
SSATB, piano
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/finally_on_my_way_to_yes_0.mp3 |
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A fast-paced, blues-inflected delivery of hard truth and deep love |
Langston Hughes |
SSATB, piano
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-folks_im_telling_you.mp3 |
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A moving celebration of new life. |
Sophia Lyon Fahs |
SATB, piano
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/for_so_the_children_come.mp3 |
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A genre-defying “instruction manual,” as whimsical and varied as the singing planet which inspired it |
Elizabeth Alexander |
SATB, piano
TTB, piano
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M-MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-how_to_sing_like_a_planet_satb.mp3 |
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An isolated poet offers words of struggle and connection to her imagined readers |
George Ella Lyon |
SSA choir, flute, violin, piano
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SSA trio, flute, violin, piano
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/i_write_this_poem_out_of_darkness.mp3 |
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Five fanciful dances, from “Cappucino” to “Cakemarch” |
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Prepared piano, 4 hands
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/imaginary_dances_iii_water_ballet.mp3 |
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A meditation on the transient nature of beauty |
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Viola, piano
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/impermanent_things.mp3 |
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An atmospheric work praising the mystery of Creation |
Richard S. Gilbert |
SATB, violin, piano |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/into_the_silent_darkness.mp3 |
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An ecstatic and introspective cantata embracing six sources of religion for our own time |
Elizabeth Alexander |
SATB, piano OR
SATB, flute, horn, string quartet |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-kindling-1-first_touch.mp3 |
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A richly imagined arrangement of a visionary protest anthem |
Joyce Poley |
SATB, spoken voices, piano |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-one_more_step_0.mp3 |
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A compelling look at the human slavery, both through the ages and in our own time |
Elizabeth Alexander |
SSAA a cappella
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-reasons_for_the_perpetuation_of_slavery_ssaa_0.mp3 |
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A sassy frolic about deep listening, the cry of existence, and a congregation of rowdy birds |
David Allan Evans |
SATB a cappella |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-same_birds-satb.mp3 |
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TO BE PREMIERED IN MAY 2019 |
Gregory Orr |
SATB, piano, and string quartet OR string orchestra |
MA |
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A tender parable about the richness of the world's religions |
Elizabeth Alexander |
SATB, piano OR
SATB, flute, horn, string quartet |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-kindling-4-so_much_radiance_0.mp3 |
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The first dance of spring: tweedle-dum and fiddle-dee-dee! |
Carl Sandburg |
SATB a cappella
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/spring_grass.mp3 |
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Three evocative songs of spring |
e. e. cummings, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg |
SATB a cappella
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/when_faces_called_flowers_float_out_of_the_ground.mp3 |
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A rhapsodic salute to Faith's invaluable companions: Science and Reason |
Elizabeth Alexander |
SATB, piano OR
SATB, flute, horn, string quartet |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/recording-kindling-5-strong_braid.mp3 |
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A reminder of the power of faith to shine through difficult times |
Evelyn K. Dudley |
SATB a cappella
TTBB a cappella
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MA |
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A town's wild descent into madness — and mangoes! |
Neal Bowers |
Low voice, piano
Medium voice, piano
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/trouble_in_a_minnesota_town.mp3 |
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A whimsical (and amorous!) song of spring |
e. e. cummings |
SATB a cappella
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/when_faces_called_flowers_float_out_of_the_ground.mp3 |
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A gutsy, sensual song in praise of messy women |
Joan Wolf Prefontaine |
SSAA a cappella
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/recording-why_i_pity_the_woman_who_never_spills.mp3 |
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An intimate portrait of Dia de los Muertos |
Elizabeth Alexander / Augustin Cadena |
SATB, piano
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MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/y_comienzo_a_bailar.mp3 |
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A fierce and vibrant farewell to a dying friend |
Teresa Schreiber Werth |
SSAA a cappella, div. |
MA |
https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/samples/recording-you_were_meant_for_this.mp3 |
