Composer: Natalie DietterichDetailsFormat: Mixed Choir - 5 voices or moreVoicing: SSAATTBBSolo Requirements: S, S, S, A, TAccompaniment: unaccompaniedNotation: standard & non-standard elementsNon-standard Notational Elements: spoken partsPerformance Length: 5:48 Study Scores & Audio FilesStudy Score & Audio Order Printed ScoresOrder site / Alternate source of score: ndietterich@gmail.com Texts & TranslationsLanguage(s): EnglishText Source: ConversationsText: 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 Programming AidsPerformance Difficulty: difficultSeasonal Usage: SecularDescriptive Terms: socialchangepeacecommunityhumanityAllow Excerpts: Composition is a single movementComposer’s Notes: This text was assembled from fragments of conversations I had with people whom I had never previously met. I was moved by the deeply personal things people were willing to share, despite our lack of a direct relationship toward one another. I have chosen phrases that follow three particular strangers I have met, and their hardship, representing the struggles of many that go unconsidered as we pass by and continue with our lives.? This piece was awarded the 2016 Leo Kaplan of the Morton Gould Young Composers Awards. Additional InformationDate of Completion: August, 2014Date of First Performance: Thursday, December 11, 2014Premier Performance Data: Yale Camerata (Maggie Brooks, cond), Woolsey Hall, New Haven CTAdditional Performances: November 13, 2016: Yale Camerata (Maggie Brooks, cond), Christ Church, New Haven CT
