COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig
(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:
To Reach Them My Hand by Travis Ramsey SATB divisi and piano (Click here for PDF and here for AUDIO)
Level: High School or Higher
Uses: General Concert
Program Themes: Labor Day, Workers, Walt Whitman
This Piece Would Program Well With: John Henry arr. by John D. Miller available from JWPepper and SheetMusicPlus
The Walt Whitman poem used here honors workers of many types. This piece would be excellent for a Labor Day concert. There is some simple divisi that would make it an excellent learning piece for a smaller ensemble. Enjoy!
To Reach Them My Hand is available form the composer tramsey(at)kenmorestudios.com
Travis Ramsey says
Thanks for the nod in the spotlight, Jack! If any choirs are
interested, I’m considering adding another movement or two based on
other Whitman texts of the same period. For the right group I might
be up for a complimentary set of this in exchange for a commitment
to perform the larger work. Email for details? tramsey at
kenmorestudios. Com