Waiting (2021)

Choral: Secular

11 Dec

A setting of Emily Dickinson’s Waiting

SATB

Duration:
4′

First performance:
24 April 2022
Nazareth College Chamber Singers, Brian Stevens, Linehan Chapel, Nazareth College, New York State, USA

Score

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Programme note

Waiting is a simple and warm setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem of the same name. The piece is in a clear ABA form with sustained material and prominent solo soprano bookending more arioso and cantabile material. My piece relates directly to the COVID-19 pandemic with obvious references to ‘singing’ and ‘keeping the dark away’ at the heart of the composition.

PAC

Recording

Tobias Patrick Wolf

Tobias is an award-winning German conductor and composer based in North East Scotland. He is Music Director of the renowned King’s Studio Orchestra (Scotland), the Braeside Singers (Aberdeen) and Principal Guest Conductor of the German Winds. Tobias is PhD researcher at the University of Aberdeen, exploring hybrid composition and performance practice. Sought after as guest conductor for ensembles around the globe, he brings new music to life — for audiences in the concert hall, on radio and television, and across multi-platform online streaming services.

https://www.tpwolf.com