(The Composition Showcase is a unique resource for conductors. Choral composers are allowed to share only a few of their best works. Each week we offer you the best of the best on a silver platter. The Silver Platter Award winners are works that your choirs will love to sing and your audiences will love to hear)
Silver Platter Award Winner:
Level: Middle School or Higher
Uses: General Concert Use
Program Themes: Overcoming Loneliness, Resolve
This Piece Would Program Well With: Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep by Janet Lanier available on the Composition Showcase
You are going to like this and so will your choir! Braeden Ayres has given us a beautifully moving song that should become a standard of your repertoire.
Journeyman’s Song is available from the composer’s website: http://www.braedenayres.com/full-scores/journeymans-song
Ray Braswell says
Braeden Ayres says
I appreciate you noticing this! In actuality, this is something intentional that I do for all my pieces. The short version is that, visually, it helps singers avoid closing to the consonant early. If you’d like more in-depth reasoning, feel free to look at my blog post on the subject: http://www.braedenayres.com/blog/2015/7/24/vowel-alignment
Braeden Ayres
Ray Braswell says