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Thus, Consider This (2006)
SATB chamber choir, piano; text: Sandro R. Barros; ca. 5:30
Commissioned by SCI and ASCAP for the 2006 SCI National Conference
Listen (excerpt MP3) (4MB)
Premiere
September 15, 2006
Trinity University Chamber singers, Scott MacPherson conductor
Trinity University, San Antonio
Read the San Antonio Express News review
Thus, Consider This is a short choral fantasy written in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Based on a quotation from Mozart's Fantasie in D minor, which I remember playing as a child, this piece is a "personal" commemoration. I asked friend and writer Sandro R. Barros to write a poem based on this theme. Following his dramatic poem about the power one's past, the piece develops motives from the Mozart excerpt. As if conjuring up a forgotten memory, the actual quotation is revealed towards the end of the piece. With the haunting final words of Barros’ poem, the quotation "morphs" into a ritualistic chant, as if returning to the past.
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