Rare & Unique Repertoire for Women’s Voices

 
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Through collaborations with composers, conductors, choirs and musicians from around the world, Vox Musica’s featured concert projects have included eastern music from India, Persia, and Georgia, music for taiko drums and women’s voices, an electronic concert for women’s voices and DJ, a performance of music for guitar quartet and women’s voices, a project of musical settings of bedtime stories, collaborative performances featuring new works based off of the art work of Sam Francis and Gottfried Helnwein, several composition contests, and others featuring Orthodox music and traditional Jewish music.

For twelve years we have been collecting rare and unique music for treble, girls’, and women’s choruses. Much of this literature has only been performed by our ensemble, is unpublished, or in some cases published or self-published by the composers. Hopefully, this session will make a significant contribution to the canon of SSA(A) literature, will provide choir directors/ music educators access to rare and unheard-of repertoire, and will serve as an inspiration for creative and adventurous programming. Both women’s and mixed ensemble directors could benefit from having attended this session.

Repertoire:

(Selections will be made from the following literature.)

THE EAST: Eastern Music from India, Persia, and Georgia (2009)

  • Yesuvaipola Nadai – Victor Paranjoti (1906-1967) [SSAA]

  • Chorale – Ioseb Kechaqmadze (1938-2013) [SSAA]

  • Bishnau – Lua Hightower (b1956) [SSAA, solo]

  • Raga: Iman Kalyan – Matthew Grasso (b1972) [SA, tabla, raga guitar]

THUNDER: Music for Taiko Drums and Women’s Voices (2010)

  • Soaring II – Iris Shiraishi (b1954) [SA, taiko ensemble]

  • Message from Miyako Island, III. Hyanna – Naoko Zukeran (b1966) [SSAA, pf, drum]

  • Sacramento Sanka – arr. Yoko Fujimoto (b1952) [SA, taiko drum]

FIDESIUM: Guitar Quartet and Women’s Voices (2011)

  •  Desabafo, Para quarteto – Gonçalo Lourenço (b1979) [SSAA, guitar quartet]

REMIX: Electronic Concert Project for Women’s Voices and DJ (2012)

  • Hildegard Remix – arr. Brent Lee & Chris McNamara [SA, electronics]

  • Physica – Joel Matthys (b1974) [SSAA, electronics]

  • Undivided – Benjamin Martinson (b1987) [SSAA, electronics]

  • Stasis – Jordan Nobles (b1969) [SA, handbells]

RENEW: Early Music accompanied by Trombone and Saxophone (2012)

  • O Virgo Splendens – anon. Medieval Chant [SA]

  • Verbum Caro Factum Est – anon. 12th-Century Medieval Chant [SA]

REPLAY: Musical Settings of Bedtime Stories (2013)

  • Maggie and Milly and Molly and May – David Husser (b1981) [SSAA]

  • The Harmony Jar – Peter Hilliard (b1975) [SSAA, narrator, puppets]

MAACAM: Music for Looping Violin and Choir (2016)

  •  As Rivers of Water in a Dry Place – Adam Ward (b1981) [SSAA, looping violin]

VOICES IN POETRY: Music for Hang Drum and Women’s Choir (2017)

  • Countdown – Heather Razo (b1988) [SSAA ,hang drum]

  • Stay – Mario Burgos (b1987) [SSAA, hang drum]

OTHERS

  • In te Domine, VIII. Sicut Erat – Nicola Porpora (1686-1768), ed. Daniel I. Paulson (b1977) [SSAA ,strings, continuo]

  • Love – Derek Sup (b1992) [SSAA, pf]

  • Ode to the Sun – Derek Sup (b1992) [SSAA ,organ]

  • Silent Night – arr. Daniel I. Paulson (b1977) [SSAA]