Peso Ancestral
Details Duration (min): 9 Instrumentation: SATB Choir Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Program Notes This work was commissioned by Elroy Friesen and the University of Manitoba Singers for their 2008 tour of Argentina and Paraguay. The commission was made possible with financial assistance from the Manitoba Arts Council. Text: Peso ancestral Tú me dijiste: no […]
Time Passes
Details Instrumentation: Choir (SATB) Program Notes Time Passes by Canadian composer Michael Matthews is a setting of poetry by Hatsui Shizue for SATB choir. It was written for Ed Hildebrand and the Steinbach Regional High School Choir.
Song of the Sky
Details Duration (min): 10 Instrumentation: Soloists and SATB Choir Program Notes Text O our Mother the Earth, O our Father the Sky, Your children are we, and with tired backs We bring you the gifts that you love. Then weave for us a garment of brightness; May the warp be the white light of morning, […]
night prairie
Details Duration (min): 4 Instrumentation: SATB Choir Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Program Notes night prairie was written in the fall of 1995, to fulfill a request from Winnipeg conductor Henry Engbrecht for a new piece for his ensemble The University of Manitoba Singers. Henry requested a short work which would explore timbral and […]
Two Night Pieces
Details Duration (min): 7 Instrumentation: Countertenor, 2 Tenors, Baritone Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Program Notes Two Night Pieces is a setting of poetry by Dennis Cooley. The work was commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble: David James, Countertenor John Potter, Tenor Rogers Covey-Crump, Tenor Gordon Jones, Baritone The commission was made possible with financial […]
Rooms of Light
Details Duration (min): 12 Instrumentation: SATB Choir Program Notes anna first dance we walk from streetlight to streetlight silence to silence how to speak about the human heart and memory how to speak about all the rooms we live in rooms that were cloisters or rooms with lamps and seashells and empty bottles rooms with […]
Dream Songs
Details Instrumentation: Soprano, Tenor, Choir (SATB), Piano, Percussion