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Quality Over Opinion

Laughing in Her Sleep

Recorded by the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra on November 9, 2022; conducted by Alan Kay. Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University. Soli Deo Gloria.

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Program Notes:

To plod is "to move or walk heavily or laboriously" or "to work or act perseveringly or monotonously." In any kind of art, it's tempting to wait until inspiration strikes before we get to work, but for most of us, this would mean that we accomplish little at all. Most days, we need to get up, keep our noses to the grindstone, and hope something happens that's worth keeping. This piece is a meditation on the commitment to plod along in whatever work we have in front of us. One step at a time, often a laborious step, is all we can do, but we must persevere in the pursuit of beauty.

Plod — for orchestra (2022)

Harrietlehre for Orchestra (Excerpt)

Some Unused Songs

End of The Night

Disappear Again

nothing

High Five

A Pill in the Sea

You Belonged

It All Passes

Time Machines (2025) Live Performance
Commissioned by the Bowling Green University Wind Symphony

Premiered on April 17, 2025 by the BGSU Wind Symphony
Dr. Kenneth Thompson, Conductor
© 2025 Harriet Steinke

Time Machines (Live April 2025 @ Bowling Green)

Recorded by Unheard-of//Ensemble in San Antonio, Texas, August 2025.

Ford Fourqurean — clarinet
Matheus Souza — violin
Iva Casian-Lakoš — cello
Daniel Anastasio — piano

Sculpture Inspiration: Stomping Ground, by Orly Genger

Stomping Ground is based on Orly Genger’s sculpture at the McNay in San Antonio. Genger fabricated the sculpture out of brightly colored recycled lobster rope and fashioned them into large mounds with which you can climb over, sit on, and physical interact. This piece takes inspiration from the kinetic, extroverted, and playful quality of the sculpture and references its construction material with field recordings of lobsters communicating, underwater soundscapes, stomping, balls and other objects bouncing, children playing, and vibrant synths and groovy percussion intermingling with the live instruments. The sculpture’s inventive world captured my imagination; in building a sonic corollary to the sculpture, I fashioned a mystical and wild narrative path with which the listener can freely associate elements of their experience viewing and interacting with the sculpture.

Stomping Ground

Ben Morris is a composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Stomping Ground

Ben Morris

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