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Carol Of The Angels

In The Silence

Softly there falls the silver rain

USC Thornton Symphony; Donald Crockett, conductor

Dark Sand, Sifting Light

Whispers of Jasmine

Sea Dream Elegies (Excerpts)

Serafin String Quartet

Veil of Leaves

I’m so excited to share this conversation with composer Dale Trumbore! Dale has been called “a rising star among modern choral composers” (AXS), and her music has been praised for its “soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies” (The New York Times). She also is a wonderfully thoughtful person who packed a TON of awesome insights into this episode, especially for those of us doing full-time creative work. She shares:  Tips about balancing work and your wellbeing to avoid burnout Ways to switch up your process to launch over your stumbling blocks Simple yet effective ideas on how to tap into your existing network to find new opportunities  Dale has written extensively about overcoming creative blocks and establishing a career in music in essays for 21CM, Cantate Magazine, the Center for New Music, MusicSpoke, and NewMusicBox, and she is currently at work on her first book. Don’t miss this one! - Trumbore's compositions have been performed widely in the United States and internationally by ensembles including the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Children's Chorus, The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and more. She has served as Composer in Residence for Nova Vocal Ensemble and as Artist in Residence at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Copland House, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. How to Go On: The Choral Works of Dale Trumbore, Choral Arts Initiative's album of Trumbore's choral works, debuted at #6 on Billboard's Traditional Classical Chart. As a composer who works frequently with words, Trumbore is passionate about setting poems, prose and found text by living authors to music. Trumbore holds a dual degree in Music Composition and English from the University of Maryland and a Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Morten Lauridsen and Donald Crockett. A New Jersey native, Trumbore currently lives in Los Angeles, her home of nearly a decade, with her fiancé and their extremely helpful cat.

#37: Unlocking Your Creativity (Consistently) with Composer Dale Trumbore

TEM144: Evolving career goals and finding your personal creative rhythm - A conversation with composer Dale Trumbore 

Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer, author and teacher.

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TEM144: Finding your personal creative rhythm - A conversation with composer Dale Trumbore

For more information about this piece, visit daletrumbore.com/yes.

If I Say Yes was commissioned by the University of Maryland Chamber Singers and Edward Maclary for the 2019 NCCO National Conference, College Park, Maryland. This piece sets a poem by Trumbore about marriage and engagement, weighing this momentous decision against years of shared experiences.

IF I SAY YES

If I say yes, 
it won't be to some unknown future, 
some fifty years, but a yes 
to what we already have:
half a house and the two of us,
small sparrows in an unfamiliar nest.

If I say yes, it will be to words well-worn
and to ones we can barely speak aloud:
to house, or child, or forever.

If I say yes, know that I may be rusty
at choosing you over me, or me over anything.
I can hardly remember which finger takes a ring.

But I have studied us for years;
I have watched the way your neck greets your shoulders,
I have learned the laugh that means
you've forgotten yourself,
and I will choose that laughter every time.

And you will say yes to uncertainty 
saved for meals much smaller than this one,
to the teakettle whistling for minutes,
to the fruit overripe and the tea over-steeped,
to endless and to endlessly-wanted touch.

And I will be sure that,
if I still don't know the answer,
when we stand together overlooking 
anything vast and borderless,
those moments are the happiest I've been
to hover over the railing of uncertainty
and reach out to you again
with an unsaid yes.

And if neither of us is certain,
if we live in a land without rain,
then there is a yes to something surer here
even than certainty,
to something surer still than water,
and we have known that, here,
as sure as it does rain twice a year.

And if we are asking each other 
for time—
time our only matchmaker, 
time the tea-kettle's whistle, 
time the fruit overripe
and time the tea over-steeped, 
time our only choice, and time
always out of our hands—

then let's learn to time our asking.
Let's learn to ask only when the answer 
could be yes—will be yes—
so there is some small chance of it staying yes
as long as we both shall live.

When I was small, unable to sleep,
and imagining, somewhere,
a love I hadn't met, imagining that love
awake, imagining that love imagining me too,
I am certain that person was you.

I wish I knew another word for all of this—
I do. I do.

—Dale Trumbore

If I Say Yes

"Come Holy Spirit"
by Zanaida Robles
performed by Zanaida Robles

Zanaida Robles's Album

Veni Sancte Spiritus

Hailed by the New York Times for her "soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies," Dale Trumbore has received commissions, performances and awards from organizations including ACDA, ACME, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and VocalEssence. Learn more about her music at daletrumbore.com.

If I Say Yes

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