Basic Information Instrumentation: Choir (SATB)Duration: 2:45Year composed: 2021 Description “Grateful” was written between December 2020 and March 2021, a period that felt like “pandemic limbo:” a vaccine existed, but getting an appointment was nearly impossible; there was an end in sight, but we had no idea when that end would come. I was grappling with Continue reading “https://jamieklenetsky.com/wp-content/themes/gridd”

Basic Information Instrumentation: Soprano and synthDuration: 2:45Year composed: 2020 Description This piece was written for Rhymes with Opera’s 2020 Pocket Opera Workshop. It’s my first attempt at a monodrama. The piece is told from a White mother’s point of view. She is waking up to the racial unrest that has plagued America from its beginning, Continue reading “https://jamieklenetsky.com/wp-content/themes/gridd”

Basic Information Instrumentation: Choral (SATB)Duration: ~5:00Year composed: 2020 Description In April, WNYC (New York’s public radio station) collected poems written by listeners under the hashtag #PAUSEPoetry. These poems reflect how people were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. As the pandemic wore on, safe in my New Jersey home, I felt a Continue reading “https://jamieklenetsky.com/wp-content/themes/gridd”