Basic Information

Instrumentation: Choral (TBB)
Duration: 3:00
Year composed: 2017

Description

Written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Perfrormed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Men’s Ensemble, March 8 and 10, 2018, Manhattan

Part of the Project: Encore contemporary choral music catalog

After a politically difficult 2016 and 2017, I wanted to write a piece to express both the dismay and

How do we continue on, when the world seems to be collapsing around us?

After a politically fraught two years, I wrote this piece to express both dismay and hope – the reasons I continued to persist and fight for what I believed in.

Continued persistence during troubled times –
I wanted to express this idea through lyrics and song.

Lyrics

written by Jamie Klenetsky Fay

I am lost
I am surrounded by thoughts I don’t understand
Feelings I don’t feel
Truths that aren’t real

I remain

I am lost
But I remember love and my joy
And the beautiful blue sky

I remain
For the dreams we’ve shared
and the sparkle in your eyes
For tomorrow

I remain for the world.

Score & Recording

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