A return, and with goodies!

Obviously I haven't posted in a while. The summer was long and mosty amusical. Of late, I've been pretty annoyed by music education and don't know I still want to continue with it as my major. However, I've also been much more into conducting and composition (I've spoken with the head of composition at school and I now own TWO batons. classy, right?).

Now, the reason for this post is the fact that I've actually completed a piece for once! And it's a setting for women's choir no less!

Here's a preview of the first page:


As you can tell, it's a setting of an Emily Dickinson poem, "I felt a funeral in my brain". The text illustrates her growing discomfort with losing her sanity, and I think my setting does it justice. It's both lyrical and atonal, and musically parallels the unwinding and breaking down of the text.

I'm pretty proud of it, not just because I finished something, but I feel that I finished something real -- for once I think it's mostly me speaking through it all and that I really did justice to the text. I'd love to hear it performed! (Although I'll admit, in trying to sing the parts myself I realized it's a bitch to sing.)

Click here if you feel so inclined to listen to the midi recording and see the full score!