Challenger: Ride to space
This composition was commissioned by the New Canon Project, a partnership between the American Choral Directors Association, the American String Teachers Association, and Rising Tide Music & Arts, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts through their “Celebrating America250” initiative in accordance with Executive Order 13978.
Challenger: Ride to Space is a fun and dynamic work for intermediate choir and string orchestra. This piece is written to honor Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, and pulls inspiration from epic sci-fi film scores. Because of her knowledge of robotics, and her aptitude with the robotic arm in training camp, Sally was chosen out of the 6 women in NASA Astronaut Group 8 as the first woman to go to space. The mission of her trip was to deploy and retrieve communication satellites. On this Challenger trip, the ship landed safely, and Sally Ride became one of the most famous women in the country.
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Night Song at Amalfi
Commissioned for the New Canon Project, a partnership between ACDA, ASTA, and Rising Tide Music Press, with support of the Sphinx Venture Fund.
Inspired by her travels, Vignettes Overseas is a collection of 11 poems published in Sara Teasdale’s massively successful book of poems, Rivers to the Sea. Written during a time where women’s voices were often silenced, and just one year after her marriage, Night Song at Amalfi vibrantly illustrates the struggle to be a woman in a society that expected women to be submissive, and the stark reality she and many other women faced.
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To his love.
My first ever choral work! To His Love. by Francis William Lauderdale Adams is a beautiful ode to his lover overseas. Not much information can be found about this particular poem or its author, but it stands alone as a beautiful piece of text nonetheless.