Name: Leaves by Francis Snyder - Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
Duration: 3 min 22 s
Description: A setting of the poem Leaves by Sara Teasdale, written for the 2020 NYC Song Slam. Performed by Mezzo-Soprano Marissa Plati, and Pianist Muse Ye.

A setting of the poem Leaves by Sara Teasdale, written for the 2020 NYC Song Slam. Performed by Mezzo-Soprano Marissa Plati, and Pianist Muse Ye.

Leaves

Francis Snyder is a Boston based composer and conductor and holds a Bachelor's of Music Theory and Composition degree from Boston University where he studied with Dr. John Wallace. His compositions have been performed by members of many of Boston's music conservatories and he has conducted many of them himself. He has also worked with many pit orchestras and has conducted performances of 'The Wedding Singer', 'Anything Goes' and others. In 2016, his piece Parks and Ponds was commissioned and premiered by the Blue Hill, Maine group The Bagaduce Choral to celebrate the centennial of Acadia National Park and in the spring of 2017, he was chosen as the 2017 winner of the Boston University Orchestral Composition Competition. His piece Organic Appreciations was premiered by the Boston University Symphony in April of that year.