Premiere performance: March 6, 2008, Maryem Hassan-Tollar, alto. Rufus Mueller, tenor. The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Choir under the direction of Ivars Taurins. Trinity United Church. Toronto, Canada.

The Texts:

1. Shalom-Salaam
 
I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among young women.

As an apricot  tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among young men.
 
My beloved spake, and said unto me,

Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
 
My beloved spake, and said unto me,
 
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, 
and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land again (repeat). 

Salaam - Shalom: Give us peace (repeat).

From The Song Of Songs — 1. Salaam - Shalom

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Kala Ramnath on violin, arranged for string quartet by Reena Esmail 
© 2016 Inner Sunset Publishing
℗ 2016 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded July 2016 at Studio Trilogy, San Francisco, CA
Engineered and mixed by Laura Dean
Assistant Engineer: Alex Spencer
Production Assistant: Minna Choi
Mixed at Women's Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Mixing Engineers: Monica Bonilla, Ripley Young, Becca High, Victoria Fajardo, Hannah Valente and Victoria Fajardo

Amrit

Kala Ramnath - Amrit

This track was recorded from a youth penitentiary in the Greater Vancouver Regional District and shared with consent and permission.

Librarium's Album

Music For the People ft. BYCS Youth (Version 1.0)

Salvatore Sciarrino's first work for solo flute, All'aure in una lontananza (1977), performed on alto flute by Mark Takeshi McGregor. Performed live on 14 September 2016 at the International Symposium of New Music 2016 in Curitiba, Brazil. Presented by the Grupo de Pesquisa Núcleo Música Nova.

Salvatore Sciarrino: All'aure in una lontananza

First piece from a set of short piano pieces for intermediate players.  Explores syncopation and rhythms found in reggae music.

A little Reggae Music

Re-imagining of Narvaez' "Cancion del Emperador."

AYRE II - Remixes

Elizabeth Knudson: You Dream In Beauty

A Vagabond Song was based upon a poem of the same name by Canadian maritime poet, Bliss Carman. It is a celebration of the vibrant colours and free-spirited feeling that the autumn season can evoke.

A Vagabond Song was the winning composition in the national Canadian Women Choral Composing Competition, 2005, and was performed by DaCapo Chamber Choir at the Open Ears Festival in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, May 1, 2005.  Other performances include: Massey Choir, at Massey College, University of Toronto (Canada), November 22, 2008, several performances by the Northern Lights Chamber Choir on tour around British Columbia, Canada, February-March 2012, and two performances by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, in April and October 2018.

Sheet music for this piece is available through the Canadian Music Centre (for SATB choir, as well as an arrangement for string quartet):

https://cmccanada.org/shop/62298/
https://cmccanada.org/shop/70431/

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There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood.
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir:
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill aflame
She calls each vagabond by name.
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Bliss Carman (1861-1929)

A Vagabond Song (for SATB choir)

Elizabeth Knudson is a nationally award-winning composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal & electroacoustic music, and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.  

For a more detailed bio: http://www.elizabethknudson.ca/bio/
To request purchase/rental/loan of sheet music, please visit the Canadian Music Centre website: https://cmccanada.org/composer/elizabeth-knudson/

A Vagabond Song (for SATB choir)

Elizabeth Knudson

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