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In 2024, I was selected to participate in Choral Arts Initiative’s PREMIERE|Project Festival as a Composition Fellow. The experience culminated in the premiere of my piece, “There is sweet music here.” After sharing that Edward Elgar’s setting was a big inspiration in that piece, a friend who attended the premiere suggested I set more reflections of classic English part songs. My setting of “The Long Day Closes” is a reflection on Arthur Sullivan’s setting of Henry Fothergill Chorley’s text. The first stanza is a meditative and homophonic text setting, indicating a waning fire at the end of the day. The middle passage modulates and increases in tempo, signifying the fire roaring alive once again. The last passage is a return to the original key, with brief variances, signifying the last moments in both the fire and the day. The piece is the fifth of a five-movement cycle, English Vignettes.

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