BMI Composer Awards

With a Greeting (2011)
for SSAATTBB Chorus unaccompanied

Words by Afanasy Fet (1820 – 1892)
Music by Joshua Fishbein

Commissioned by The Esoterics, Eric Banks, founding director; 
for the POLYPHONOS Young Composer Prize, 2011
Winner of the BMI 60th Annual Student Composer Award, 2012

Recorded live by The Esoterics
October 9, 2011
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
West Seattle, Washington

ECS Publishing, Catalog No. 8030

With a Greeting

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Instrumentation: 
1 Piccolo
1 Flute
1 Clarinet in Bb
1 Bass Clarinet in Bb 
1 Soprano Saxophone
1 Alto Saxophone 
2 Trumpets in Bb 
2Horns in F
1 Trombone
1 Euphonium 
1 Tuba
1 Piano

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The Unexpected
for SATB Chorus and Piano
Music by Joshua Fishbein
Words by Paulo
(Note: Paulo is one of several talented young poets served by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop. Free Minds uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken DC youth incarcerated as adults to their own potential. Through creative expression, job readiness training, and violence prevention outreach, these young poets achieve their education and career goals, and become powerful voices for change in the community.)

Commissioned and Premiered by the Thomas Circle Singers with support from the Nora Roberts Foundation
James Kreger, Artistic Director
Aaron Goen, Piano
Recorded live at Church of the Epiphany, Washington, DC on May 18, 2019

The Unexpected
by Paulo

The doors open and I am escorted in
Wearing an oversized orange jumpsuit
I glance around and find myself being stared at
The air circulating the room 
Brings goose bumps to my skin
I just want to run away
I want to hide
And erase the moment
The judge calls out my name
Within minutes, my future is called out
I am left speechless
Escorted out, I struggle to move my legs
My knees want to give up on me
I cannot hold myself together
I am still adding the numbers 

From The Untold Story of the Real Me, 84. 
Washington, DC: Shout Mouse Press, 2015. 
Copyright © 2015 by Free Minds Book Club 
& Writing Workshop. Used by permission.  

With a Greeting

Joshua Fishbein, composer

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