for tenor and piano

Composed June 2019

 

One of the annual traditions of the Brevard Music Center is the New Art Song Concert, a project in which all composition fellows write a musical setting of the same poem.  The concert showcases the composition studio's variety of interpretations and styles: though all the text is the same, no two songs sounded remotely similar.  In 2019, the year I attended, the chosen poem was Robert Frost's Canis Major.  In my setting, I aimed to convey the awestruck wonder one feels when gazing at the stars.

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A recording of Canis Major, performed by tenor Ethan Garner and pianist Chen-Fang Hsu is provided below.