Sunday, March 16: Mercy On Ourselves (World Premiere)
Edvard Munch, “Mystical Shore,” 1897.
Emmanuel Music (Ryan Turner, Artistic Director), a “living laboratory for the music of J. S. Bach,” performs the World Premiere of Mercy On Ourselves on Sunday, March 16 at 10:00am ET at Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA and on livestream.
This motet for SATB choir was commissioned to pair with Bach’s Cantata BWV 46 (“Schauet doch und sehet”). My work, which features an original text, offers a musical meditation on the climate change crisis that takes its cues from Bach’s moving evocations of human sorrow and divine wrath. For more about this project, read my program note.
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Thursday, March 6: Street Haunting (Voices of NEC)
Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning” (1897).
New England Conservatory Chamber Singers (Erica J. Washburn, Director) will perform Street Haunting, a winning score of the “Voices of NEC” alumni choral composition competition, on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 7:30pm ET in Jordan Hall, Boston, MA and on livestream.
The competition’s winners were selected by a panel consisting of James Burton, Boston Symphony Orchestra Choral Director and Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Anthony Trecek-King, Resident Conductor (chorus) with the Handel and Haydn Society; Anthony Maglione, composer and Director of Choral Studies at William Jewell College; and Erica J. Washburn, Director of Choral Activities at New England Conservatory.
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Thursday, March 6: I Would Like (World Premiere)
Agnes Lawrence Pelton, “Room Decoration in Purple and Gray” (Detail), 1917.
Arkansas State University Concert Choir (Ryan W. Sullivan, Director) will perform the World Premiere of I Would Like for SATB choir at the ninth annual Music by Women Festival at the Mississippi University for Women on Thursday, March 6 at 3:00PM CT in Columbus, MS and on livestream.
I Would Like was commissioned by the Arkansas State University Concert Choir for inclusion on a program of choral works by women. Director Ryan W. Sullivan invited me to set a poem by Kathryn I. W. Sparks in which the speaker paints a vision of the contentment they wish to feel at the end of their life. I sought to honor the emotional nuances of this reflective text through moments of madrigal-esque word painting and the gentle tension of harmonic suspensions.