Works about Letting Go
Title
Poet/Lyricist
Voicing/Instrumentation
Level
Be Grateful, My Soul
A passionate testament to life’s worth, even when facing adversity and oppression
A passionate testament to life’s worth, even when facing adversity and oppression
Poet/Lyricist: Norbert Čapek
- SSAA a cappella OR 5-part canon
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Yehuda Amichai
- SATB a cappella
Level: A
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
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SSAA, piano
Level: MA
How To Sing Like a Planet
A genre-defying “instruction manual” as whimsical and varied as the singing planet which inspired it
A genre-defying “instruction manual” as whimsical and varied as the singing planet which inspired it
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- TBB, piano
- SATB, piano
Level: MA
I’ll Tell You A Story, then…
An ordinary walk leads to an unexpected discovery about what it means to be fully human
An ordinary walk leads to an unexpected discovery about what it means to be fully human
Poet/Lyricist: Nancy White
- Low voice, piano
- Medium voice, piano
- High voice, piano
Level: M
- Viola, piano
- Cello, piano
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Ray Bradbury
- SSA, narrator, piano
- SSA, narrator, string quartet
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Wendell Berry
- SATB, piano
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Dutch proverb / Elizabeth Alexander
- Vocal duet, piano
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- Low voice, piano
Level: M
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander
- SATB a cappella
- SATB, flute, oboe, piano
- SATB, orchestra
Level: Various
Poet/Lyricist: E. E. Cummings
- SATB a cappella
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Joan Wolf Prefontaine
- SSAA a cappella
Level: MA
Y Comienzo a Bailar (“And I Begin To Dance”)
An intimate portrait of the bittersweet experience of memory, loss, and love
An intimate portrait of the bittersweet experience of memory, loss, and love
Poet/Lyricist: Elizabeth Alexander / Augustin Cadena
- SATB, piano
Level: MA
Poet/Lyricist: Teresa Schreiber Werth
- SSAA a cappella
Level: MA