Program note

Clair de Lune attempts to paint the text of Verlaine's poem by constantly playing with the rhythmic relationship between the female and the male sections of the choir. The harmonic ambiguity symbolizes the emotional ambiguity of the text. I tried to use extremely spare motivic material and bring a minimalistic aesthetic to the world of choral music.

Text

From a poem by Paul Verlaine.

Awards

Cantemus Choral Composition Competition (Ipswich, Mass.), for students in New England colleges and universities, third place: 2008.

Performances