Composer Jim Papoulis has created an energetic and uplifting work that fuses the rhythms from African, American and Latin cultures, and uses a text primarily in Swahili interspersed with phrases in Spanish. Supported by shaker, djembe and agogo bell, the middle section has the feel of a real celebration with layers of spoken word that […]
Jim Papoulis: Now Is The Time (SSA) Written in a Foundation for Small Voices song-writing workshop hosted by the Cincinnati Children’s Choir, the student’s message is loud and clear – “Whatever your journey, whatever your beliefs, whatever your dreams or battle on triumph, the time is not tomorrow, or sometime in the future…now is the […]
Refuge sets a powerful Sara Teasdale poem by the same name, which perfectly captures the healing power of singing: ‘For with my singing I can make a refuge for my spirit’s sake, A house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality’. Quartel uses musical structure to complement the poem’s narrative, opening and closing with […]
