Composition Spotlight – Under the Night Sky

COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig

 

(Each week we look at one or two of the best choral works posted in the Composition Showcase here on ChoralNet.  This is where we store a treasure trove of works that your choirs will love to sing and your audiences will love to hear.)

 

Under the Night Sky by Danny Gray for SATB, clarinet and organ (Click here for PDF and here for AUDIO of Pt.1 Pt.2 Pt.3)

 

Level: Advanced Children’s Choir

Uses: General Concert Use

Program Themes: Moon, Stars, Childhood Imagination

This Piece Would Program Well With: Dancing Tree  by Nancy Gifford from JWPepper and SheetMusicPlus

 

Under the Night Sky is a delightful setting of three Robert Louis Stevenson poems.  Danny Gray is an extremely versatile composer writing in many different genres and for many different media.  #1 is full of interesting complex meters that move the singer in a gentle but varied dance.  #2 has rich but very singable harmony.  #3 focuses the listener’s attention on beautiful melody dressed in delicate word painting and vocable accompaniment.  This is one of those pieces that inspires me to improve my ensembles so that we could perform it. 

 

Under the Night Sky is available from the composer: dg(a)dannygraymusic.com