Weaver of Eternities
Choral Music
chorus with chamber ensemble
work detail
instrumentation: SATB, alto saxophone, marimba, string quintet, and piano
completion date: july 2023
duration: 12 minutes
texts: A setting of the poem "Consecration" by Jacqueline Goldfinger
events
NOTUS: CHARTING THE WORLD
NOTUS * Dominick DiOrio, director
Auer Concert Hall - Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
11:00 pm
NOTUS presents a concert of inspirational new music grounded in themes of family, discovery, and joy. Featuring IU faculty saxophonist Otis Murphy on a new original work by DiOrio, as well as IU composer (and harpist) Han Lash, the program includes Lash's Canticum Psalmi Falsum for chorus, harp, drum set, and piano; Dale Trumbore's Charting the World for chorus, flute, and strings; Zanaida Stewart Roble's Blühende Bäume for six soloists and strings; and the annual winners of the NOTUS Student Composition Contest. Free and open to all.
videos
Weaver of Eternities
Otis Murphy, alto saxophone * NOTUS * Dominick DiOrio, conductor (world premiere recording, March 2024)
commission and dedication
Commissioned by NOTUS, Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and dedicated to saxophonist Otis Murphy.
text
Consecration by Jacqueline Goldfinger
On their first day of days, the newborn at mother’s breast listens close, father whispers: “You shall love the Lord our God with all your heart and soul and might; in teaching and in binding, in lying down and in rising up, in Jerusalem’s perpetual light.”
Wails from tender lips curl through time to worlds both vanished and to come. Today she is consecrated, the summoner. Receiver of wisdom. Measure of our hearts. Tomorrow, gone, a weaver of eternities, a hymn to generations.
program note
Weaver of Eternities is commissioned by NOTUS, Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensembles, and dedicated to saxophonist Otis Murphy, Professor of Music (Saxophone) at the IU Jacobs School of Music. The work is a positive and joyous musical expression of poet Jacqueline Goldfinger’s evocation of family: a value centered and most dear to Otis, Jackie, and myself. It’s propulsive outer sections are matched by the intensity of feeling in the contrasting middle section, where the saxophone is featured as a concerto soloist, complete with a cadenza flourish of warmth and virtuosity.
Dominick DiOrio, July 2023
information
events
NOTUS: CHARTING THE WORLD
NOTUS * Dominick DiOrio, director
Auer Concert Hall - Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
11:00 pm
NOTUS presents a concert of inspirational new music grounded in themes of family, discovery, and joy. Featuring IU faculty saxophonist Otis Murphy on a new original work by DiOrio, as well as IU composer (and harpist) Han Lash, the program includes Lash's Canticum Psalmi Falsum for chorus, harp, drum set, and piano; Dale Trumbore's Charting the World for chorus, flute, and strings; Zanaida Stewart Roble's Blühende Bäume for six soloists and strings; and the annual winners of the NOTUS Student Composition Contest. Free and open to all.
videos
Weaver of Eternities
Otis Murphy, alto saxophone * NOTUS * Dominick DiOrio, conductor (world premiere recording, March 2024)
commission and dedication
Commissioned by NOTUS, Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and dedicated to saxophonist Otis Murphy.
text
Consecration by Jacqueline Goldfinger
On their first day of days, the newborn at mother’s breast listens close, father whispers: “You shall love the Lord our God with all your heart and soul and might; in teaching and in binding, in lying down and in rising up, in Jerusalem’s perpetual light.”
Wails from tender lips curl through time to worlds both vanished and to come. Today she is consecrated, the summoner. Receiver of wisdom. Measure of our hearts. Tomorrow, gone, a weaver of eternities, a hymn to generations.
program note
Weaver of Eternities is commissioned by NOTUS, Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensembles, and dedicated to saxophonist Otis Murphy, Professor of Music (Saxophone) at the IU Jacobs School of Music. The work is a positive and joyous musical expression of poet Jacqueline Goldfinger’s evocation of family: a value centered and most dear to Otis, Jackie, and myself. It’s propulsive outer sections are matched by the intensity of feeling in the contrasting middle section, where the saxophone is featured as a concerto soloist, complete with a cadenza flourish of warmth and virtuosity.
Dominick DiOrio, July 2023
