“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 […]
New Publications
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 […]
new this spring from Canasg Music
The following new Canasg titles can all be viewed and ordered online at www.canasg.com My true love hath my heart SATB A wedding song based on lyrics by Elizabethan courtier Sir Philip Sidney, playing on the exchange of ‘his heart’ and ‘her heart’. Easily adaptable for same sex weddings. TBB and SAA versions available soon. […]