Preview: How To Sing Like a Planet
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Young Men's Chorus (TTB choir and piano) - Moderately Advanced
Composer's Note: Given a "no-strings attached" commission, 60 talented middle school boys, a solid accompanist, and one heck of a dynamic conductor, what's a composer to do? Well, after she does a little happy dance, she thinks outside the box! Inspired by Mark Morford's electric description of the music that the earth makes just by being itself, I wrote and set to music a set of instructions for those of us who might wish our planets's approach, as it hums and thrums along.
A showpiece for an above-average middle school boys choir, with both changed and unchanged voices.
SKU: SF.SEA-105-00
Composed by Elizabeth Alexander. Octavo. With Text language: English. Duration 4 minutes. Published by Seafarer Press (SF.SEA-105-00).Text by Elizabeth Alexander.
This musical "instruction manual" is as whimsical and varied as the singing planet which inspired it. This genre-defying showpiece evokes both the "ethereal" and the "grooving", offering pearls of humor, humility and common sense. A prominent piano part undergirds this colorful romp, requiring a sensitive and solid accompanist.
Commissioned by Minnesota Chapter of American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Commissioned for Minnesota Middle School State Honors Choir; Eugene Rogers, conductor (St. Peter, MN) Featured in: Star of the North (MN-ACDA magazine) article, "Three World Premieres" (Bryan Blessing, 2012)Composer's Note: Given a "no-strings attached" commission, 60 talented middle school boys, a solid accompanist, and one heck of a dynamic conductor, what's a composer to do? Well, after she does a little happy dance, she thinks outside the box! Inspired by Mark Morford's electric description of the music that the earth makes just by being itself, I wrote and set to music a set of instructions for those of us who might wish our planets's approach, as it hums and thrums along.
A showpiece for an above-average middle school boys choir, with both changed and unchanged voices.