"There Will Be Stars"
Music by Laura Nevitt
Poetry by Sara Teasdale

Performed at Source Song Festival on August 12, 2022
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Corissa Bussian, soprano
Eric McEnaney, piano

There Will Be Stars

Cover of Stephen Sondheim's "Losing My Mind" from his musical "Follies." Recorded by Joe Bae.

Losing My Mind - Sondheim

Saro (cello version)

"...And she conceived and bore to Zeus, who delights in the thunderbolt, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus.”
Hesiod

Roger Hunt - electric guitar
Ethan Ditthardt- electric guitar
Mills Chaiken- electric guitar
Tyler Kysar- electric bass 
Alex Souris- drumset
© October 30th, 2018

Goddess of Spring

ZEUS

This is a choral piece I wrote and performed in 2019 with my vocal ensemble, Nightingale (https://www.facebook.com/NightingaleVocalEnsemble/), setting the words of Siegfried Sassoon:

“Everyone Sang” - Siegried Sassoon

Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight.
Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away ... O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

Everyone Sang

This is a choral piece I wrote and performed in 2019 with my vocal ensemble, Nightingale (www.facebook.com/NightingaleVocalEnsemble/).


“Birds of a Feather” - Kelvyn Koning

Birds of a feather always stick together.
Birds of a feather: wingmen forever.
Birds of a feather always stick together.
Birds of a feather: wing friends forever.

Murmuration of starlings,
Ostentation of peacocks,
Convocation of eagles,
Exaltation of larks,

A rookery of penguins,
A rafter of turkeys,
A bevy of quail,
A bevy of swans,
A gulp of cormorants,
A gulp of swallows,
A kettle of hawks (hawks mate for life),
A charm of finches,
A bouquet of pheasants,
A flamboyance of flamingos,
A gaggle of geese,

Pandemonium of parrots,
Pod of pelicans,
Parliament of owls,
Pitying of doves,
Paddling/raft of ducks,
Peep of chickens!

Birds of a feather always stick together.
Birds of a feather: wingmen forever.
Birds of a feather always stick together.
Birds of a feather: wing friends forever.

A watch of nightingales,
A tiding of magpies,
A scold of jays,
A clamor of rooks,
A colony of seagulls,
A mustering of storks,
A ubiquity of sparrows,
A descent of woodpeckers,
A wake of buzzards,
A conspiracy of ravens,
A mob of emus (emo emus),
A siege of herons,
A murder of crows!

Some birds prey (Amen)
And some birds sing (do re mi fa sol),
Some birds can’t fly (like penguins)
Even though they have wings,
But we still love them because they’re birds,
And birds gotta stick with their herds.

Birds of a feather always stick together.
Birds of a feather: wingmen forever.
Birds of a feather always stick together.
Birds of a feather: wing friends forever.
Avian menageries.

Birds of a Feather

It Was Good Until Is Wasn't Out Now! Kehlani.lnk.to/IWGUIWSO

Hate The Club Feat. Masego

"Sunflower" was written and performed by Kelvyn Koning for Apollinaire Theatre Company's Chelsea People Project in the summer of 2020.

Lyrics:
When you find you’re getting caught
In a tight and twisted knot
And an old, abandoned lot
Is all you’ve got
And you want to fill a need
But you’ve only got a seed
And an army full of weeds
That must be fought

Marlborough to Willow
Let the light grow
Life and goodness we can hold
Turn it all to gold

In your darkest hour
When you wanna cower
Be a sunflower
When you’re feeling sour,
You must find the power
To be a sunflower
Ooh

Sunflower

Here's a chiptune version of Captain Toad's theme! I was inspired by this Twitter post featuring Captain Toad in a pixel art, tactics-game style: https://twitter.com/freerdan/status/1299519065837297666

Captain Toad Goes Forth - Chiptune

Conductor, Composer, and Vocalist in Boston, MA

There Will Be Stars

Laura Nevitt

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