O Notte (O Night)

SATB, Violin, Cello, Piano; Editor’s Choice, J.W. Pepper; text – Michelangelo and Friedrich Rückert; U.S. Publisher – Walton Music 1596; Duration 4:40 COMPOSER NOTES Michelangelo (di Ludovico Buonarroti) is best known for painting (e.g., Sistine Chapel), architecture (e.g., dome of St. Peter’s Basilica), and sculpture (e.g. The David). What is less known is that Michelangelo was […]

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The Road Not Taken

SATB div./Piano & Cello; Editor’s Choice, J.W. Pepper; US Publisher: Carl Fischer CM9704 (SATB version); (also published for SSAA/Piano/Cello); Robert Lee Frost, poet; Duration 4:40 minutes. COMPOSER NOTES Few American poems are as well known as The Road Not Taken, published in 1915.  It supersedes geography, race, or creed.  Rather, it is a “credo for humanity” […]

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