Projēkt Chamber Voices
Amy Henderson. conductor
Recorded Live in St. John's NL on October 30th, 2021

Thirsty Hearts for soprano solo and SATB chamber choir was commissioned by Projēkt Chamber Voices as part of a commissioning project for works relating to our new concept of breath in a post-COVID world. The text for this piece, written by the composer, examines how our relationships have changed and the new dangers of letting someone in. The score was written to work with a remote choir during the safety protocols of covid. The video score and the soloist anchor the choir while recording remotely. The score is set in shades of blue watercolour to reflect the water imagery in the text. The choir explores restricted and muted breath sounds.

Text:
my breath catches
yearning to crash into you
blur our shoreline, liquid surrender

your breath shimmers
with dangerous allure
we damn ourselves apart, parched separation

our breath grasps
against the current
condensation now precious, sweetest vapour

thirsty hearts mouth songs of hope

Thirsty Hearts (2020) - SATB choir

This is a vibrant setting of a poem by George Parsons Lathrop that describes how music underpins all earthly life. An active piano part provides an energetic undercurrent to compelling vocal lines, with the voices beginning in unison before opening out into two and then three parts

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Music of Life - B.E. Boykin

SSA with piano
recorded live at the premiere performance by the WVSD Treble Honour Choir, conducted by Suzanne Fulton
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Text:

Nobody tells you
it is ok to call yourself beautiful
it is ok to smile at mirrors
and it is perfectly fine
to say your own eyes are pretty

it is wonderful to love your waist
and your legs
regardless of their size
and you are not conceited
if you use your fingers to list
everything you’re good at
rather than point at all your own flaws

you can acknowledge you’re smart
and that you will go places
and you will be someone
greater than your mistakes

you can’t always expect
other people to believe in yourself
for you


				Attributed to: AKR (Amanda Katherine Rickertson)

Call Yourself Beautiful - laura hawley

Excerpt from the World Premiere of Ugis Praulins' "Stabat Mater"
i. Lamentation
ii. O Quam Tristis

Call Yourself Beautiful - laura hawley

Laura Hawley

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