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Live recording by Boston Choral Ensemble (Klo Garoute, Conductor):
Commissioned by Boston Choral Ensemble.
Any of the three movements may be programmed separately as standalone works for performance.
Performance score available for purchase. Please direct inquiries to Nell Shaw Cohen at nell@nellshawcohen.com.
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Commissioned by Skylark Vocal Ensemble. Inspired by the flowering of visual art and poetry in Victorian Britain during the 1840s-1870s.
Any of the three movements may be programmed separately as standalone works for performance.
NEW! Skylark Vocal Ensemble’s World Premiere live recording of Transform the World with Beauty (tracks 18-20, paired with Sauntering Songs) is available now on all major streaming music platforms (including Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora, and Tidal). The CD will be available in October, and may be pre-ordered from Skylark. Read the digital liner notes with essays and lyrics.
A chamber opera in one act inspired by the life of Mabel Dodge Luhan: an early 20th century writer, philanthropist, and international icon of the avant-garde. Continue reading “Mabel’s Call (2018)”
A family holiday opera with a libretto by Edward Einhorn adapted from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: a nontraditional Christmas fairy tale set in the magical world of “The Wizard of Oz.”
Currently in development.
Recording from Untitled Theater Company No. 61’s workshop reading of excerpts from the opera in piano-vocal score:
Written for American Opera Projects Composers & the Voice fellowship.
Lyrics by Edward Einhorn.
Continue reading “Sorting Photos (2016)”
Recording courtesy of SACRA/PROFANA.
A choral setting of text adapted from an essay by John Muir about Crescent Meadow in Sequoia National Park.
Performance score available for purchase. Please direct inquiries to Nell Shaw Cohen at nell@nellshawcohen.com.
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There lay the grassy, flowery lawn,
three fourths of a mile long,
smoothly outspread,
basking in mellow autumn light.
Then up spring the mighty walls of verdure
three hundred feet high,
the brown fluted pillars so thick and tall and strong
they seem fit to uphold the sky.
And as I gazed, every color seemed to deepen and glow
while every tree seemed religious
and conscious of the presence of God, of God.
A free man revels in a scene like this and time goes by unmeasured.
Adapted by Nell Shaw Cohen from “Our National Parks” (1901) by John Muir.