Score
Jubilate Musica : for SATB choir, piano and percussion / music by Carl Crossin ; texts by Elizabeth Bishop and Carl Crossin.
Library shelf no. 782.5542/CRO 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
This work is a setting of the poem 'I am in need of music' by poet Elizabeth Bishop. The first section of the work is a setting of Bishop's poem and explores the human need for beauty through music. The creation of the revised version was, in part, a response to the trials and tribulations of 2020 - the year of COVID. The final section of the work (the final 2 minutes) is a jubilant celebration of the power of music to uplift and inspire and uses the Latin words 'Jubilate' and 'Exultate' and the principal drivers of a Celtic inspired coda.
Work Details
Year: 2017
Instrumentation: SSAATB choir (with divisi), piano, percussion.
Duration: 9 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Requires up to 12-part divisi on occasion
Commission note: Originally commissioned as an unaccompanied work by Graduate Singers (Adelaide) in celebration of their 40th Anniversary in 2017. The work was then revised in 2021 and a piano part added for performance by the Elder Conservatorium Chorale in 2021.
Performances of this work
4 Jun 21: featuring Elder Conservatorium Chorale, Carl Crossin, Karl Geiger, Ryan Grunwald.
12 Aug 17: featuring Graduate Singers, Karl Geiger.
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