by Emmanuel Berrido | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
After the Dazzle of Day, for SATB chorus, wind ensemble, and strings, contains settings of two short poems. Walt Whitman’s “After the dazzle of day is gone” describes the transition from day into night, while Richard Eugene Burton’s “The broadening of the light is...
by Emmanuel Berrido | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Age ergo vitam probam (“Live a good life”), for SATB chorus, is a setting of a quotation I first encountered online, concerning the existence or non-existence of gods. It suggests that, no matter the case, your charge is the same: live a good life. The quotation is in...
by Emmanuel Berrido | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Snow Man, for SATB chorus, is a setting of one of Wallace Stevens’s earliest poems, in which the “snow man” of the title is not a figure made from snow, but a person looking out upon a snow-covered landscape. The poem reveals the beauty of winter to be in its...
by Emmanuel Berrido | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
After-Glow, for SSATB chorus, contains a setting of a poem by the English poet and composer Ivor Gurney, who wrote “After-Glow” during his time as a soldier in World War I. The poem is dedicated to his friend F. W. Harvey, himself a poet, who was being held, at the...
by Emmanuel Berrido | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
A Burnt Ship, for SATB chorus, contains a setting of an epigram by the 17th-century English poet John Donne, in which the men aboard a besieged ship must face the grisly choice between a death by burning or by drowning—the irony being that those who “leap forth”...
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