Make Space for Life to Live features expansive yet accessible vocal lines perfect for the emerging choir negotiating the challenges of adolescent voice change. It offers compelling melodies and singable vocal lines interwoven with a piano accompaniment that make subtle allusions to the main theme. The addition of the optional baritone part allows this work […]
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Jazz/improvisation trio + Chamber Choir
“Forget your hairdo, because your hair will stand stiff upward when the symbiosys forces cross the stage” wrote newspaper De Volkskrant after the premiere concert of Henosis. Henosis was created after Bram Stadhouders received the Composition Assignment from the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2012. Stadhouders wrote his work for a special combination: eight members […]
Nada Te Turbe by Jake Runestad, winner of 2013 Raabe Prize
Nada Te Turbe by Jake Runestad is now available through JR Music. Winner of the 2013 Raabe Prize for Excllence in Sacred Music Composition, Nada Te Turbe is a setting of the beautiful prayer by Santa Teresa de Ávila. Nada Te Turbe was commissioned by the Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire, conducted by Patrick Quigley. […]
SATB Setting of Animula Vagula Blandula
My setting of the Emperor Hadrian’s (supposed) last poem is not published on Score Exchange http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/135830.html It’sworth a look (I hope) and it’s free. Animula Vagula Blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca, Pallida rigida nudula Nec, ut soles, iocos dabis. [Little wandering. winsome soul, My bodies guest and […]
SHOMRAYNEE EL (Watch Over Me, O God) for S.S.A. or S.A.T.B
Colleagues, Shomraynee El (Watch Over Me, O God) is now available inversions for SSA and SATB. A recording by Solaria, Voices of Comfort is now available to help preview this work. If you’re interested, please contact me for a perusal score. Sincerely, Bruce Craig Roter, Composer of “A Camp David Overture […]
Break of Day SSA(A)/piano/oboe or horn) Michael John Trotta
This original work based on a poem by John Donne has lyrical, legato vocal lines which unfold to reveal a subtle interplay between voices, interwoven with piano and optional obbligato line for oboe or English horn. The text, an account of two lovers faced with parting, concludes with the yearning refrain, “Stay or else my […]