Newly-available works from American Prize-winning choral composer Jonathan Santore

A number of previously unpublished works by Jonathan Santore, winner of the American Prize in Choral Composition, are now available at www.jonathansantore.com. These new works set texts about topics including:
• the discomforts of travel on early American plank roads (Riding on the Plank)
• the memory of one’s hometown (Time Has Cast It All Far Back)
• an Elizabethan “lady of learning” (To the Lady Arabella)
• grief and reconciliation after a tragic loss (Gone From My Sight)
• a Renaissance playwright and adventurer’s earthy take on his society, in the original Spanish (Tres Rimas Humanas)
• E.E. Cummings’ somewhat dark view of how humanity treats the environment (O Sweet Spontaneous Earth)
• Herman Melville’s “God’s-eye” view of the Civil War (Battle-Pieces)
• the Winter and Summer Solstices, from Robert Louis Stevenson and others (Solstices)
• the importance of mindfulness, from a victim of “Lou Gehrig’s Disease” (Requiem: Learning to Fall)
• and … well, Smoking, Drinking, and Messing Around!

Complete information, including links to sample score excerpts and performance audio, available at www.jonathansantore.com.