A choral expression of the sadness and loneliness one might feel when depressed. It's like being submerged underwater with waves of despair crashing over you, keeping you down. You can't breathe, but you can't give up. It's like coming completely apart while trying to hold it together.

She Lingers On

The Duel (The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat) (Nassau Concert Choir)

Performed by SoNAM in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Contact composer/self-publisher at www.MBQStudio.com for more details.

Nigra Sum (2017) |  Bussewitz-Quarm

On a random whim I made this jazzy homage to Garrett Hope, and his amazing resource called The Portfolio Composer Podcast. If you are a maker of music in any capacity, you will benefit from this incredible collection of interviews with influencers who will open your mind to new ideas at the intersection of artistic creativity and business. 

Go to: 
http://theportfoliocomposer.com/

This isn't a precise rearrangement of the Podcast theme, because I altered a couple of the chord changes, and I took some liberties with the  main melody line. But hey, it's close enough for jazz, right? I'm telling you it was inspired by the Podcast theme, so there you go. 

Disclaimer: Garrett doesn't know anything about this, he didn't ask me to create it, and I was not compensated for it; this is a non-commercial recording released with the only intent to express my gratitude for the podcast. It is neither official nor endorsed by Garrett Hope or the Portfolio Composer. I didn't obtain a mechanical license to record this cover version of his composition. So if you loved this jazzy rendition and feel like throwing money at something, send it to him, not me. Here's where you can do that:

https://www.patreon.com/portfoliocomposer

Cheers,
Ian Ring

Theme from The Portfolio Composer

Written by Bob Thiele and George Davis Weiss and arranged by Cantus' Matt Goinz, "What A Wonderful World" appeared on Cantus' 2018 program "For the Beauty of the Earth." This performance was captured at the Ordway Concert Hall in April 2018.

What A Wonderful World

Medieval Music - French Folk Aire

The Radium Girl (Nassau Symphonic Choir)

Ted Hearne (b 1982) is one of The Esoterics' favorite composers, and a bit of a choral provocateur, One of his more recent pieces, "Fervor" (2018), sets "the truth" in German: "die Wahrheit."

Here's a bit more about "Fervor" from the composer:

This piece is derived from a phrase of music in J.S. Bach’s 1731 motet for double-choir, "Komm, Jesu, Komm" (BWV 229). In this work, Bach mines the responsorial possibilities of the Venetian antiphonal tradition to a stunning extent. Fervor creates an echo chamber from this material, exploring the fusion of response and call. This piece is inspired by the power of repetition to alter perception: a lie that is told over and over again becomes its own kind of truth, or at least stands in for the truth because it becomes impossible to hear anything different.

This concert recording was made on 19 October 2019 at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in West Seattle.  The soloists are Brittni Liyanage, Jonathan You, Stephen Elliott, and Octavia McAloon.

Fervor - Ted Hearne - The Esoterics

"Come Holy Spirit"
by Zanaida Robles
performed by Zanaida Robles

Zanaida Robles's Album

Veni Sancte Spiritus

Negro Spritual arranged by Horace Boyer, performed by Zanaida Robles

Spiritual - Over My Head ZR solo Mix.mp3

Choral composer, clinician, taking great joy in working together with people through music.

Nigra Sum (2017) | Bussewitz-Quarm

Michael Bussewitz-Quarm