Description
Music: The Gift to Sing (a song cycle) is a set of four art songs based on poems for Soprano voice and Piano. Each poem depicts a theme that reflects the human condition such as sorrow, hope, despair, youth and happiness, death and legacy. In writing these pieces, my goal was to communicate each poem’s meaning with a musical setting that shows how integral music is as we navigate our common life experiences.
This collection is sold as a complete set or by individual songs:
- Sing, Sweet Harp
- To a Young Girl
- The Gift to Sing
- Music, When Soft Voices Die.
This work was jointly commissioned by Texas Music Teachers Association and Music Teachers National Association in 2021 and was premiered on June 20, 2021.
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