Music Commissioned by Sound Circle

Nathan Hall
            Mountains and Rivers (2016)
            SATB and two trumpets, handbells
text fragments by multiple poets; co-commissioned by GALA Choruses and the Colorado member choruses of GALA Choruses (Denver Gay Men's Chorus, Denver Gay Women's Chorus, Harmony: A Colorado Chorale, Out Loud: Colorado Springs Gay Men's Chorus, Phoenix: Colorado's Trans Community Choir, Resonance Women's Chorus, Sine Nomine,  and Sound Circle) for performance in the Denver Performing Arts Complex at GALA Festival 2016.

Mountains and Rivers was a site-specific commission. 400 singers performed the piece standing on the four tiers of the Denver Performing Arts Center Parking Garage overlooking the DPAC Galleria, singing to attendees of the 2016 GALA Festival. Click here to watch a video of the performance.

Carol Matthews
            Clangor, Clamor, Clapperclaw
            Cantillations from the Western Porch
            Seeking Enough

Gary Grundei
            Rant, poetry by Diane diPrima

Terry Schlenker
            Love After Love, poetry by Derek Walcott
            The Poem, the Song, the Picture,
                    poetry by Federico García Lorca

Beth Quist
            Everywhere (choral version)

Craig Carnahan
            I am into your fire, poetry by James Broughton
            they must dream beauty,  poetry by James Broughton

Stephen Smith
            The Human Body, poetry by Walt Whitman
            on her decision to stop wearing clothes,
                poetry by Mahadeviyakka,  transl. Jane Hirschfield

Bill Douglas
            Swing Etude No. 5

Scott Higgins
            Think/Soft/Laugh

Janika Vandervelde
            New Face, poetry by Alice Walker
                co-commissioned with Anna Crusis and
                 Vox Femina Los Angeles

Mary Ellen Childs
            O2

Diane Benjamin
            Remembering
            Vase Epiphanies, poetry by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg

Fatu Judy Henderson
            Drum Talk

Laura Karpman
            Butter My Tongue, poetry by Dorothy Allison

Eric Lane Barnes
            Sondra the Solstice Spirit

Music written by members of Sound Circle

BJ Brown
            Keep the Fire

Kay Krewson
            Come Into Our Circle
            Say Yes

Jeanne Mitchell
            Shine

Lindsey Stillinger
            In My Dream
            Let Go and Feel
            What Do I Want

Sheila Tallmon
            It’s Time

Linda Weber
            Mother Moon
            Silence of Our Dreams

Mountains and Rivers, GALA Festival 2016, Denver Performing Arts Center