“The Night House” by Yu-Hui Chang

“The Night House” by Yu-Hui Chang

by | Jul 16, 2020

For her Volti commission in 2009, Yu-Hui Chang set two poems by the wonderful poet Billy Collins. Click on the link below to listen to the second of the set. The full piece – “Being: Two Collins Songs” – is on the Volti CD “House of...
Privilege Mvmt 5: We Cannot Leave

Privilege Mvmt 5: We Cannot Leave

by | May 22, 2020

Composer, singer, bandleader and recording artist TED HEARNE (b.1982, Chicago) draws on a wide breadth of influences ranging across music’s full terrain, to create intense, personal and multi-dimensional works. Ted composed Privilege for Volti in 2009, when he...
Ecstatic Meditations: No. 4. How God Answers the Soul

Ecstatic Meditations: No. 4. How God Answers the Soul

by | May 2, 2020

Ecstatic Meditations: No. 4. How God Answers the Soul by Aaron Jay Kernis “Ecstatic Meditations” is a set of four pieces by Aaron Jay Kernis, with texts by the medieval mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg. The National Endowment for the Arts has named this work one of 75...
Paradise: IV. Lullaby

Paradise: IV. Lullaby

by | May 2, 2020

Paradise: IV. Lullaby by Shawn Crouch “Paradise” was originally composed for Chanticleer in 2009. Shawn Crouch substantially revised it for Volti in 2013. “Paradise” is based on the poems of poet Brian Turner, an Iraq War veteran, whose moving accounts of the war are...
Songs of Lowly Life: No. 4. Lullaby

Songs of Lowly Life: No. 4. Lullaby

by | May 2, 2020

Songs of Lowly Life: No. 4. Lullaby by Stacy Garrop “Songs of Lowly Life” (2011) was the result of Volti’s third commission to Stacy Garrop. Stacy chose to set five poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African-American poet to gain national and international...

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