Name: these days by Matthew Cramer
Duration: 6 min 32 s
Description: A cover of Nico's (well, really Jackson Browne's) "These Days".

Alice Matteson (soprano), Meredith Neumann (alto), Jordan Strybos (tenor), and Matthew Cramer (bass) perform a motet of Italian Renaissance composer Felice Anerio (1560-1614).

Angelus autem Domini (Felice Anerio)

it will be four years in May
her addiction’s a quick fix to feeling better, feeling normal
every once in awhile she comes back

I took eighteen of them
I don’t know if I was really trying to kill myself
these hands, they sleep

I was there for three years off and on
she wants everything
at some point you have to live

Conversations with strangers

A cover of Nico's (well, really Jackson Browne's) "These Days".

these days

David Hill: “God Be in my Head,” written in memory of John Scott, organist and director of music at St.
Thomas, Fifth Ave., New York,  a close friend and colleague of the composer, and one of the most gifted church musicians of his generation. The composer conducts.

Hill - God Be in my Head - Yale Schola Cantorum

K257, Credo Mass: Agnus Dei

Brent Michael Davids
Yale Recital Chorus, 2017

The Uncovered Wagon

Ne irascaris domine

The Bienen School of Music's Contemporary Music Ensemble and Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble perform Pelle's work written as part of the Seven Responses pjoect for The Crossing, first premiered in 2016. Alan Pierson conducts in Galvin Recital Hall.

Ad Cor - I. Wound

In 2015, I decided to build a comment box and leave it in public places around New Haven, CT. On the outside of the box, I asked: "What would you do to change the world? What do we need?" The text in this piece is a compilation of those responses.

chainlink fences

...node lecha unessaper tehilatecha...

for 8 voices

performed by Roomful of Teeth
conducted by Brad Wells

...node lecha unessaper tehilatecha... | for 8 voices (2018)

02/12/20 - New York, NY - Somethings spoken a handful of times (string trio)
PREMIERE - Future Space - Chartreuse Trio

PROGRAM NOTE
Some things spoken a handful of times was written during the Winter of 2019 for my friends of the Chartreuse Trio.

Movements:
1.	prayer — augmentation
2.	variation I
3.	“to Daniel” — …wie ein hauch… — “Gloria tibi trinitas”
4.	glacially “glosa” — variation II — 3 fragments

. . . . I waited unseen and always,
And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist, 
And took my time . . . . 

Not all birds that sing
Give help to heaven. But where
Song fails there blindness comes
To the poor prisoner.
Yet the last of all is life.

. . . . the closest
Simplest things—this moment with you,

Fragments from: Song of Myself and A Song for Occupations, Walt Whitman; Hölderlin to Sinclair, Erich Fried

Somethings spoken a handful of times (string trio)

Matthew Cramer is a conductor, singer, and composer. He is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting at Northwestern University, studying under Dr. Donald Nally. He holds a Graduate Professional Diploma and a Bachelor of Music, both in composition, from the Hartt School where he studied with Dr. David Macbride, Gilda Lyons, Elizabeth Brown, Dr. Robert Carl, Dr. Tawnie Olson, Ken Steen, and Dr. Larry Alan Smith, and a Master's of Music in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of Music, where he studied conducting with David Hill, Jeffrey Douma, and Marguerite Brooks and voice with Judith Malafronte.

these days

Matthew Cramer

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