MusicSpoke’s Score of the Week features Garrett Hope’s Stay, a setting of a John Donne text which implores his lover not to depart. Unaccompanied for SATB chorus, this piece was commissioned and premiered by Dr. Therees Hibbard and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chamber Choir. The tone clusters that occur in the divisi parts are all handled with expert voice leading which makes them very singable.
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