Emily’s Garden for mezzo-soprano and piano (2014)
Finalist of 2017-2018 American Prize for vocal chamber music (student division)
Emily’s Garden is a set of three art songs on nature-themed texts of Emily Dickinson. I love the poems’ surface simplicity belying a great depth of meaning. Utterly devoid of the dreaded pomposity, these poems are full of subtle humor, even when dealing with the most philosophical of all topics: death. My musical setting of The Cricket Sang uses jazzy syncopations and non-functional tonal progressions. The musical language of To Make a Prairie has an “Americana” sound and is similar to the Piano Sketch, with its gentle diatonic dissonances. Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup is the most complex and heterogeneous stylistically, as a response to the great range of moods and sentiments in the poem.
Duration: c. 7 min.
The Cricket Sang, and Set the Sun
To Make a Prairie
Bring me the Sunset in a Cup
Finalist of 2017-2018 American Prize for vocal chamber music (student division)
Emily’s Garden is a set of three art songs on nature-themed texts of Emily Dickinson. I love the poems’ surface simplicity belying a great depth of meaning. Utterly devoid of the dreaded pomposity, these poems are full of subtle humor, even when dealing with the most philosophical of all topics: death. My musical setting of The Cricket Sang uses jazzy syncopations and non-functional tonal progressions. The musical language of To Make a Prairie has an “Americana” sound and is similar to the Piano Sketch, with its gentle diatonic dissonances. Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup is the most complex and heterogeneous stylistically, as a response to the great range of moods and sentiments in the poem.
Duration: c. 7 min.
The Cricket Sang, and Set the Sun
To Make a Prairie
Bring me the Sunset in a Cup
Finalist of 2017-2018 American Prize for vocal chamber music (student division)
Emily’s Garden is a set of three art songs on nature-themed texts of Emily Dickinson. I love the poems’ surface simplicity belying a great depth of meaning. Utterly devoid of the dreaded pomposity, these poems are full of subtle humor, even when dealing with the most philosophical of all topics: death. My musical setting of The Cricket Sang uses jazzy syncopations and non-functional tonal progressions. The musical language of To Make a Prairie has an “Americana” sound and is similar to the Piano Sketch, with its gentle diatonic dissonances. Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup is the most complex and heterogeneous stylistically, as a response to the great range of moods and sentiments in the poem.
Duration: c. 7 min.
The Cricket Sang, and Set the Sun
To Make a Prairie
Bring me the Sunset in a Cup