COMING SOON! What’s next from our November Recital? There is Frost from Dead Fires Anthology by @auralcomposting (featuring @lindseyrae720 and @sequoia.sounds)
Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing our favorite performances from Lindsey Rae Johnson’s recital series Celebrating Local Composers: A Recital Series on our YouTube channel! Subscribe at @RaindropNewMus to see all of our upcoming videos.
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☔️ COMING SOON! ☔️ Missed our recital in November? Don’t worry, you can catch select performances on our Youtube Channel (link in bio)! Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing our favorite performances from @lindseyrae720 's recital series Celebrating Local Composers: A Recital Series.
Starting us off? O Captain! My Captain! by @carolynquickcomposer (featuring @dan_gibbs_iii & @sequoia.sounds).
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Looking for some new art songs & arias to 🌶 spice up your repertoire?
Raindrop New Music has just the thing! With imaginative stories and settings, we carry art songs, arias, and works for solo unaccompanied voice that feature gender diverse voices and unique stories.
One such work coming soon to our website (linked in the comments) is She Conjures by co-founder Lisa Neher (she/her) & Bea Goodwin (she/her). Check out this performance from Celebrating Local Composers: A Recital Series in November, featuring a powerful performance by Mezzo-Soprano Allison Knotts (she/her) & Pianist Sequoia (he/him).
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This month is dedicated to ending the stigma against mental health and making room for us all to prioritize the well-being of those affected by mental health challenges.
At the height of the pandemic, many of us faced mental health concerns, some that were completely new and difficult to manage. Drew Swatosh’s piece Stillness (from their larger work, the Dead Fires Anthology), attempted to find a semblance of optimism and peace during this time, and will hopefully continue to do so today.
Performance and recording courtesy of co-founder Lisa Neher.
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We have music for solo singer(s) and choirs for a variety of voicings and difficulty levels!
Every piece has a complete perusal score and recording available so you can quickly and easily see if it's the right fit for you and your ensemble.
Visit www.raindropnewmusic.com today!
Q and A with Drew at PSC Summer Sings
IRL: Thank you Judy A Rose and Portland Symphonic Choir for the opportunity to have the SATB version of Drew Swatosh's Finding The Light read at Summer Sings last Wednesday night, which included a Q and A with Drew! Finding The Light sets student quotes about spring 2020 and is suitable for advanced middle school choir and up. If any choral directors are interested, you can check out the work (in SSAA and SATB voicings) at Raindrop New Music's website (Link in Bio)
🎥: Kate Ledington
IRL: Thank you Judy A Rose and Portland Symphonic Choir for the opportunity to have the SATB version of Drew Swatosh's Finding The Light read at Summer Sings last Wednesday night, which included a Q and A with Drew! Finding The Light work sets student quotes about spring 2020 and is suitable for advanced middle school choir and up. If any choral directors are interested, you can check out the work (in SSAA and SATB voicings) at Raindrop New Music's website (Link in Bio)
🎥: Kate Ledington
A little about Lisa Neher's piece Three Basho Haiku for SATB choir, part of our score release of choral music, To the Heart that Knows Fire!
A little about @lisanehermezzo ''s piece Three Basho Haiku for SATB choir.
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Did you know? 🤔
Our latest score release To the heart that knows fire takes inspiration from this piece by @carolynquickcomposer (link in bio), one of four winners of Voices of Concinnity’s 2022 Choral Composer Amplify Project.
Carolyn took inspiration from the sounds of crackling flames and the sizzling sounds that a fire makes when it is being extinguished – which bookend the work. The lyrical main theme serves as a through line, shifting in and out of different tonalities and textures before finally settling into a rich, major chord surrounded by fragmented whispers of the final line of Emily Pauline Johnson’s poem, Fire-Flowers: “and life revives and blossoms once again.”
Fire-Flowers
And only where the forest fires have sped,
Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands,
A sweet wild flower lifts its purple head,
And, like some gentle spirit sorrow-fed,
It hides the scars with almost human hands.
And only to the heart that knows of grief,
Of desolating fire, of human pain,
There comes some purifying sweet belief,
Some fellow-feeling beautiful, if brief.
And life revives, and blossoms once again.
Recording by Voices of Concinnity, director Sarah Kaufold, 2022.
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Explore the story behind @auralcomposting's piece I Shall Not Care from Secular Requiem from our collection of choral scores, "To the heart that knows fire!" Which Sara Teasdale's famous poem of the same name 🔥
