all which isn't singing is mere talking
Choral Music
chorus a cappella
work detail
instrumentation: SSA a cappella
completion date: may 2006
duration: 6 minutes
texts: E. E. Cummings, poem
audio
all which isn't singing is mere talking
Connie Coleman, director
(purchase the score)
dedication
With many thanks to Francisco Núñez for his insight
program note
A finalist composition in the 2006 New York Sings! A Composer’s Symposium, this work is an energetic and rhythmically exciting setting of E. E. Cummings’s take on excess noise in modern society. In it, the power of singing is echoed and restored through the blessing of silence.
performances
January 21, 2010 (Premiere)
Oklahoma Music Educators Association Conference
Bixby High School Women's Chorus
Connie Coleman, director
Trinity Episcopal Church - Tulsa, OK
information
audio
all which isn't singing is mere talking
Connie Coleman, director
(purchase the score)
published
dedication
With many thanks to Francisco Núñez for his insight
program note
A finalist composition in the 2006 New York Sings! A Composer’s Symposium, this work is an energetic and rhythmically exciting setting of E. E. Cummings’s take on excess noise in modern society. In it, the power of singing is echoed and restored through the blessing of silence.
performances
January 21, 2010 (Premiere)
Oklahoma Music Educators Association Conference
Bixby High School Women's Chorus
Connie Coleman, director
Trinity Episcopal Church - Tulsa, OK
