White-throated Sparrow song, descending interval.  I recorded this singing at Cleveland Lakefront State Nature Preserve on 4-24-14

White - Throated Sparrow descending song form

Égloga: el Sauce que se enamoró de la Caricia del Viento (Leyendas Místicas I); recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic, conducted by Joel Suben [Mystic Legend #1, "Eclogue: the Willow that fell in love with the Wind's Caress."]

Égloga: el Sauce que se enamoró de la Caricia del Viento (Op. 78, 2002)

"Veni, Redemptor (Come, Redeemer)" is a new composition based on a hymn by St. Ambrose of Milan in the 4th Century.  It was written for the St. Ambrose University Chamber Singers conducted by Nathan Windt, and I am very grateful to them.

St. Ambrose's hymn was originally titled, "Intende qui regis Israel," and the words invite Christ's presence into this world through the mystery of the Virgin Mary in explicitly trinitarian language.  It is traditionally sung in the season of Advent.  The music sounds very much like what we would consider to be a chant, but in a style that was specific to Ambrose, and came to be known as Milanese or Ambrosian in style.  This chant style is still practiced in Milan today.   

I folded the original melody and words of St. Ambrose wrote into my music as foundational material, adding harmony parts, and changing the key at a couple points.  The original melody is always present even as other parts are added to it, and my hope is that these parts add to the meaning of the text, and add interest for our contemporary sensibilities.  It is composed for the standard four chorus parts of soprano, alto, tenor, bass.  

The music was commissioned by Richard Geiger and I'm very proud to be asked by him to compose this music.  My concept is to wed the old chant with some new harmonies and melodic ideas.  So to stay true to the prayerful nature of the words, it starts out quite slow and quiet with the women invoking the chant as sung by the men of the choir.  The music gradually builds and reaches its high point during two separate verses about the light of God shining and shimmering.  For this music all the voices are high in their range, particularly the sopranos.  The music fades away and ends with a recasting of the chant and a final Amen sung by all.

Veni, Redemptor – O Come, Redeemer

1
Veni, Redemptor gentium;
Ostende partum virginis;
Miretur omne saeculum.
Talis decet partus Deo.
[ O Come, Redeemer of the earth,
And manifest Thy virgin birth:
Let every age adoring fall;
Such birth befits the God of all. ]
2
Begotten of no human will,
But of the Spirit, You are still
The Word of God in flesh arrayed,
The promised Fruit to man displayed.
3
The virgin's honor still remains
Yet from within her the womb swells.
Virtue's standards shine and shimmer
God within his temple ever dwells.
4
Procedit e thalamo suo,
Pudoris aulo regia,
Geminae gigans substantiae
Alacris ut currat viam.
5
O equal to the Father, Thou!
Gird on Thy fleshly mantle now;
The weakness of our mortal state
With deathless might invigorate.
6
Thy cradle here shall glitter bright,
And darkness breathe a newer light,
Where endless faith shall shine serene,
And twilight never intervene
7
Sit Christe Rex piissime,
tibi Patrique gloria,
cum Spiritu Paraclito,
in sempiterna saecula. Amen.

Veni, Redemptor (Come, Redeemer), for SATB Chorus

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~~tunnelrunner 2014~~

A quiet dawn chorus in the Mojave Desert National Preserve.  Recorded on March 30, 2018.  Vegetation was just starting to green up, following recent rains after a very dry winter.  I think the birds were just starting their breeding activity, as I saw none carrying nesting material or food to their young.  Recording features cactus wrens, phainopepla, Gambel's quail, song sparrows, black-throated sparrow, and maybe white-crowned sparrows.

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Mojave Desert Dawn Chorus

Robotic Subotnik

William Campbell is a pianist and award-winning composer of music for all genres. He creates clearly evocative musical soundscapes that communicate emotions from broodingly dark to exuberantly joyful.

Campbell's music for films includes work nominated for two Oscars (Academy Awards) in 2021 and 2019, an Emmy nomination in 2020. His recent scores have earned the awards for best film score in 2020 by the Iowa Motion Pictures Association, and best original score at the 2021 (International) Luminous Frames Festival. Additional awards include those from ASCAP, Kennedy Center American Collegiate Theater Festival, Penfield Music Commission, Waging Peace, and multiple teaching institutions. In 2021 he released the critically acclaimed album of solo piano music, "All In Due Time," and in 2023 the album for piano & electronics titled "Together We Rise" debuted at number 11 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Chart. He is also a sought-after composer for orchestral, chamber, and vocal music, and is regularly commissioned to write new works by various organizations every year. As a performer, he has led multiple new music groups and has played with orchestras and as a soloist in North and South America. 

Current and recently finished projects include two new film scores, a work for choir, and chamber music. For nearly two decades William was Professor of Music at St. Ambrose University and Director of Contemporary Music at St. Paul Lutheran Church. He currently lives in the Southwest hills of Portland, Oregon, and is the Department Chair and Director of Compositional Activities at Linfield University.

Veni, Redemptor (Come, Redeemer), for SATB Chorus

William Campbell Music

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