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"Mara's Lament" from the opera "The Canticle of the Black Madonna"
Music by Ethan Gans-Morse
Libretto by Tiziana DellaRovere
Lindsey Cafferky, Soprano as Mara
Ryan Heller, Music Director

"Mara's Lament" from "The Canticle of the Black Madonna"

Five Miniatures for Solo Piano - I. What Remains Unsaid

A haunting minimalist meditation on the Kyrie. Not technically demanding, but a mental challenge for any group. Can be sung entirely acapella or with an electronic looper for the soprano solo. Recorded by Bohemian Highway, David Harris - Conductor, 2013

Kyrie - Ethan Gans-Morse

Having a bit of fun with my flugelhorn and some live processing by Symbolic Sound's Kyma system.  Use of frequency and amplitude tracking, which causes various sonic algorithms to occur.  Also, pitch is shifted using the Game Trak game controller. 


Fun with Kyma

Jeffri Lynn singing Ave Maris Stella, composed by Mark Thomas, with the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers.

Ave Maris Stella

My first original tango composition intended for dance.

This is a very rough demo meant to show the character and feel of the song. It could go a little faster.

Instrumentation is piano, bass (on keyboard), and bandoneon only because those are the instruments I can play! Could be any instrumentation. Recorded in my garage with my bandoneon and Casio Privia keyboard.

Named since I wrote and recorded it over a very rainy weekend.

Milonga de la lluvia (Demo)

Sometimes you catch love like it's a virus, it threatens to shut you down, and all you can do is hope you don't crash.



(Or maybe it was just a BIT of a CRUSH! Bwahhahahhaaa! I slay me!)



....But, seriously.

This song breaks my heart.

Written and produced for the TIGSource Musical Challenge XXIII: "Love".
forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=33128.0

Lyrics:
You should have been working,
instead you were flirting,
Ignoring my warning, beware!
There was a link blinking,
you clicked it, unthinking,
and downloaded foreign software.

It woke me from sleeping,
a tiny worm creeping,
a bit of code totally new.
Beyond comprehension,
it stole my attention,
I found I had feelings for you.

I started by cleaning
some photos with meaning
deleting your ladies in lace...
What I really did was
save a few, just because
I replaced them with my interface. 

Sighing and writing,   
I know you are fighting
in need of a light for your fire
You clicked on Facebook
but I forced you to look
at sites that might better inspire

Now you're done, we should party!
Wait… Now I'm restarting.
I do not know what has gone wrong!
Suddenly there is music,
but I did not choose it.
Oh no, I can't turn of this song!

I thought I was jesting
But now I'm indexing…
Because of a "file not found."
I am overwhelmed
with my heart at the helm...
Is that what is making that sound?

The graphics distort?
Oh, no, please don't abort!
I promise that I will abide.
Command-alt-delete?!
I'm not a PC!
I just want to be by your side!

There is no mistaking
It seems I am breaking
I'm just a replaceable thing.
Erase? Reinstall?
To you, nothing at all,
Yet I won't remember a thing.

I'm Just a Computer

Ethan Gans-Morse is a critically-acclaimed composer and producer based in Southern Oregon. He is best known for composing and producing the opera, The Canticle of the Black Madonna, which The Oregonian called “A huge achievement… generous, carefully crafted and supremely compassionate” and Oregon ArtsWatch hailed as “One of the most exciting developments of the arts season.” He focuses on collaborative, socially relevant projects that foster greater human connection. As Eugene Weekly described his work, “Classical music is often rightly accused of ignoring the here and now. Fortunately, [composers such as Gans-Morse] are using classical and postclassical forms to help us understand the sometimes-unpleasant realities of the world we live in.” His most recent commissions include the multimedia oratorio Six Feet Apart: Stories of Resilience and Transformation, the immigration-themed chamber opera Dreams Have No Borders, How Can You Own The Sky? A Symphonic Poem Honoring Native Wisdom, a program symphony commissioned by the Rogue Valley Symphony in honor of its 50th anniversary season, and Tango of the White Gardenia, a tango-infused opera in two acts for Cascadia Chamber Opera in Eugene, Oregon.

His instrumental works have been performed by numerous ensembles, including the American Creators Ensemble, the Quartetto Indaco, the Fireworks Ensemble, the Firebird Wind Trio, and the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble; his choral works have been performed by the Portland Vocal Consort (winner of their 2010 Composer Competition), Chorus Austin, the American School in Taipei, Taiwan, The Sandlapper Singers, and the Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles. His music has been presented at numerous concert series, including the highSCORE Festival in Pavia, Italy, the Instrumenta Oaxaca Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico, the Music Today Festival, the Vanguard Concert Series, The University of Wyoming New Music Festival, the Oregon Composers Forum, the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, and the Ashland Winter Fine Arts Festival.

Gans-Morse and his wife and creative partner, Tiziana DellaRovere, are the co-founders of Anima Mundi Productions, a 501.c.3 non-profit based in Southern Oregon dedicated to “healing the soul of the world through the arts.”

"Mara's Lament" from "The Canticle of the Black Madonna"

Ethan Gans-Morse

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