Works about Brokenness
Title
Poet/Lyricist
Voicing/Instrumentation
Level
Poet/Lyricist: Michael DeVernon Boblett
- SATB a cappella
- SATB, chamber orchestra
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Søren Kierkegaard
- Flexible voicing: 2-4 pt choir a cappella
- SSA a cappella
Level: E
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SATB, piano
- SATB, chamber ensemble
Level: M
- Vocal solo
- Vocal duet
- Flexibly voiced chorus
Level:
Create a Song Once More
St Cecilia invites King David to imagine a restorative path beyond guilt and shame
St Cecilia invites King David to imagine a restorative path beyond guilt and shame
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SATB a cappella
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Dawna Markova
- SSA, cello, piano
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Yehuda Amichai
- SATB a cappella
Level: A
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SSA + SAB youth, piano
- SSA, soloists, piano
- SATB + SAB youth, piano
- SATB, soloists, piano
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Pesha Gertler
- SSATB, piano
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- Low voice, piano
- Medium voice, piano
- High voice, piano
- SSA, piano
- SATB, piano
Level: ME
In the Lonely Midnight
A Christmas carol bearing both mourning and hope, with a lyric written on the eve of World War I
A Christmas carol bearing both mourning and hope, with a lyric written on the eve of World War I
Poet/Lyricist: Theodore Chickering Williams
- SATB, piano
- SATB, orchestra
Level: ME
Kindling: Small Reflections on a Limitless Faith
An ecstatic and introspective cantata on the things that inspire, challenge and nourish our religious lives
An ecstatic and introspective cantata on the things that inspire, challenge and nourish our religious lives
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SATB, piano
- SATB, chamber ensemble
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SSA, piano
- SATB, piano
Level: M
Life is Not a Garden
An open-eyed and open-hearted view of this complicated world, acknowledging both disappointment and hope
An open-eyed and open-hearted view of this complicated world, acknowledging both disappointment and hope
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SSAA, piano, opt. bass
- SATB, piano, opt. bass
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SATB, piano
- SATB, chamber ensemble
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Gregory Orr
- SATB, piano, string quartet or string orchestra
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SSA a cappella
Level: M
When the Song of the Angels Is Stilled
A rhythmic and relevant best-seller about the true “work of Christmas”
A rhythmic and relevant best-seller about the true “work of Christmas”
Poet/Lyricist: Howard Thurman
- SATB a cappella
- SATB, flute
- SSAA a cappella
- TTBB a cappella
Level: M