performed by the String Orchestra at South High School, Minneapolis. This orchestra comprises players with a range of experience on their instruments. This work was composed as part of a project for the McKnight Visiting Composers fellowship.

String Meditation (2018), for string orchestra (all levels)

Described as “evocative” (Resonance) and “surreal” music “to bewilder, amuse, and provoke” (Epoch Times), the works of composer Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice have won great acclaim and inspired intense debate. Burghart Rice received a 2009 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award and took 1st Prize in the 2005 Salvatore Martirano Award. Her music has been championed internationally by ensembles such as the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (Marin Alsop, director), the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and Juventas.

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String Meditation (2018), for string orchestra (all levels)

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