Name: The Sometimes Joy Of Reminiscing - Ritter | Choral Arts Initiative, Brandon Elliott by Zachary James Ritter
Duration: 5 min 21 s
Description: Performed Live by Choral Arts Initiative. Brandon Elliott, Artistic Director. From their 10th anniversary concert Together, November 2021

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things)

for two harps and two retuned pianos

by Dylan Mattingly

Co-commissioned by the LA Phil and the Ojai Music Festival. Performed by the LA Phil New Music Group, Ojai California, 9/19/21.

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (Live at Ojai)

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things)

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Performed Live by Choral Arts Initiative. Brandon Elliott, Artistic Director. From their 10th anniversary concert Together, November 2021

The Sometimes Joy Of Reminiscing - Ritter | Choral Arts Initiative, Brandon Elliott

Periapsis Benefit performance of "What kind of land will we be together in?", performed by Eleonor Sandresky and Jonathan Katz.

Soapbox Gallery, November 2021

What kind of land will we be together in? - V.II

The first of a series of song cycles with music by Sean O'Boyle and poetry derived from Yuliya Triskeu née Shvarko's "Healing" series.

Recorded for live broadcast at 4MBS Classic FM Studios, Brisbane, Saturday July 16th, 2022.

Soprano - Amber Evans
Piano - Daniel Le
Artwork - Elaine Presser

Sean O'Boyle - Healing I

Shared Space

Look! See!
Can you see?
Can you see the world around me?
Since I cannot see you here.

Around me,
Surroundings have changed,
It’s only your absence I can see.

Do we somewhere still
share the same clouds? 
The same wind?
Look! Can you see?
Do we still admire the same rivers?  
The same trees?

I can’t see,
I can’t hear anymore.

But when I look beyond my fear.
There where I cannot reach with eyes or ears,
I see, I hear, our shared space,
My memory has seized you.

And I let myself float away in a river of memories.

Can you hear the wind?


text and composition: Amarante Nat
conductor: Fokko Oldenhuis
choir: Neon Koor

(2016) in our shared space

Original piece, performed during Choral Chameleon's 2019 Summer Institute. 

For scores/performance rights, go to https://laurenlynnmusic.com/

I have left pieces of my heart 
All across the world 
And I have been working my whole life 
Just to leave where I've come from

Searching for answers to the questions I didn't know
Craving freedom from the black and white routine

Some have the path fall before them 
Some are caught, entangled 
Venturing to make a way through a journey not forseen

And now that I've wandered a distance away
I don't even know where I'd go
Besides the places that I've been 
Or the one that I call home 

Taking for granted the wide open spaces 
Ignoring the sky brimming with kaleidoscope sunsets

I have left pieces of my heart 
All across the world 
But they're not left in the places I've been
They're with the people I've met

Pieces Of My Heart

A guided evocation
22'
pierrot ensemble and soprano

Guided Evocation

Played by Daniel Espie
Philadelphia, PA 05/30/20

So Vast A Sweetness/Amherst

A seasonal exploration

Co-created by Annie Beliveau and Steven Lewis

Thank you to Mariah Carey!

December 24, 2020

All I Want for Christmas Is 7/8 of You

Abridged program note:

When two people are connected, there’s a sound world in the silence between them, an unspoken yet ear-splitting link “heard” by no one else but them...a “silent soundtrack” I aim to make sonically material. Though physically a solo, the piece is permeated by another voice at play; the multi-tracking expands this single voice, interacting with that other presence growing and falling with it...coloring, speaking and moving with it. A perpetual thread of yearning within shapeshifting surroundings. Internal torment screaming in slow motion.

Camilla Caldwell, multi-tracked violin
Annie Nikunen, composer

the sound of space between us

Composer, baritone, collaborator, choral musician

The Sometimes Joy Of Reminiscing - Ritter | Choral Arts Initiative, Brandon Elliott

Zachary James Ritter

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