New from Dale Trumbore & Jennifer Lucy Cook

Wonder and wander with these new works from

Dale Trumbore & Jennifer Lucy Cook!

• Stunning instrumental options abound in Cook’s newest version of “They Are Mother” with string quartet, and Trumbore’s “Measured Sands” with harp, piano, and cello.
• Trumbore’s “Lullaby for the Newly Hatched” and Cook’s “For You I Will Be An Island” contemplate distant friends and finding one’s way in the world.

They Are Mother (SATB & String Quintet – Full Score)
For SATB div. choir, SA solo group, and String Quintet (view the Choral Score and Parts)
Also available: SATB & SSAA, both with div. choir, SA solo group, and Piano
Difficulty: 4 | Duration: 3-5 min.

“They Are Mother” captures the nonbinary and nonsingular mystery and grandeur of the divine creating force: Mother Nature. This piece features a blend of traditional choral vocal technique and elements of modern pop singing and will highlight creative soloists in the ensemble.

Measured Sands (SATB Full score and parts)
For SATB Chorus, Harp, Piano & Cello
Also available:
SATB Choral score;
SSA Chorus, Harp, Piano & Cello;
SSA Choral score
Difficulty: 3 | Duration: 5-10 min.

With vivid coastal imagery and layered emotional landscapes, “Measured Sands” reflects on memory, loss, and the power of returning to the same place over a lifetime. As the harp, piano and cello mimic the ebb and flow of ocean tides and memories, the chorus describes a place where the past resurfaces with haunting clarity.

Lullaby for the Newly Hatched (SA)
For SA chorus & Piano
Also for SAB chorus & Piano
Difficulty: 2 | Duration: 3-5 min.

This luminous lullaby narrates the experience of watching sea turtles hatch, guiding the listener through darkness with tender repetition and quiet resolve. Its imagery embeds real aspects of a baby sea turtle’s journey—the struggle to find the light of the moon and walk toward the sea—in a larger metaphor about finding the right path.

For You I Will Be An Island
For SATB div. a cappella choir
Difficulty: 5 | Duration: 3-5 min.

In the piece you’ll hear waves humming all the words left unsaid, the voices dividing with the widest intervals possible before coming back together for clusters, and long phrases that stretch for miles. It is my hope that “For You I Will Be An Island” can evoke the strange beauty in loneliness, in whatever form it shows up for you.

– Jennifer Lucy Cook

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