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HOPE for SAATB Chorus (2024) | Text by Emily Dickinson

November 5, 2024 by Stanley M. Hoffman 2 Comments

HOPE was composed this year for a call for scores for the Atlanta Master Chorale. While it was not chosen, this brief, attractive, easy-to-perform choral work awaits a world premiere performance

Click here to view and hear a scrolling score music video of HOPE on YouTube which was created using the NotePerformer sound engine. 

Click here to view a watermarked PDF of HOPE on my website.

Click here to listen to a synthesized rendition of HOPE on my website.

This title is available for licensing from the composer, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus via this link.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD

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Biography written by Byron Adams in Grove Music Online (The New Grove Dictionary of Music) Published by Oxford University Press, 24 June 2021.

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  1. philip spencer says

    November 8, 2024 at 12:03 pm

    I would be interested in performing a world premiere of your piece with my philanthropic choir NaperVoice (napervoice.org)at our Spring 2025 Concert on April 27.

    Please contact me with details at

    Thank you!
    Philip Spencer
    Founding Conductor/Artistic Director
    NaperVoice

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  2. Peter Frost says

    November 6, 2024 at 9:11 am

    The title of the poem is “Hope is the thing with feathers”. Not “Hope”
    If Emily Dickinson wanted to call it “Hope”, she would have

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