Dominick DiOrio

Do you know what I have done for you?

• Instrumentation: SATB (divisi) a cappella
• Completed: July 2007
• Duration: 5 minutes
• Texts: John 13:12
• Published:

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• Program Note:

  Do you know what I have done for you? is an a cappella work for mixed voices that takes one of Jesus’ most important sayings from the Bible. As the work progresses, the listener begins to wonder who is the person asking the question: is it Jesus himself, or is it his followers who have suffered? The music makes use of beautiful diatonic dissonances, which ebb and flow until they resolve into a single unison note.

• Performances:
  • April 9, 2009 (premiere)
    University Church at Yale
    Battell Chapel Choir
    Dominick DiOrio, director 
    Battell Chapel - Yale University - New Haven, CT