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Music, 2020-2022 (continued)
Salute in Solo (continued)
Score for solo viola
Adams, Samuel
DF No Solo
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_044
Scores for solo bass; audio; video; correspondence
DF No Solo
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_059
Score for solo bass
Bjarnason, Daníel
DF Same Yet Different
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2023_101
Program note
Boyer, Peter
see also Boyer, Peter
DF Fanfare for Tomorrow
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_059
Score for solo horn
DF Fanfare for Tomorrow
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_078
Oral history
Dessner, Bryce
DF Pour les soignants
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_059
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_075
Score for solo cello
Mumford, Jeffrey
DF Let Us Breathe
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_059
Score for solo cello
Rivera, Carlos Rafael
DF A Fanfare for Stories Lost
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2023_102
Score for flugelhorn
Shaw, Caroline
DF One Day at a Time
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_059
Score for violin and voice
Sorey, Tyshawn
DF For Peter Evans (Apologies for the Brevity)
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_059
Score for solo trumpet
Coleman, Valerie
BOX 1 Fanfare for Uncommon Times, 2021
Commissioned by the Orchestra of St. Luke's and premiered at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts on June 27, 2021.
Score for brass and percussion ensemble
DF Fanfare for Uncommon Times, 2021
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2022_054
Contract; correspondence
BOX 1 Seven O'Clock Shout, 2020
Commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered virtually July 6, 2020. Seven O'Clock Shout was inspired by frontline workers and the nightly salute to offer them thanks in New York City.
Score for orchestra
DF Seven O'Clock Shout, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2022_054
Contract
DF Seven O'Clock Shout, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2023_026
Video of premiere
Domínguez, José Luis
BOX 1 Gratias Tibi, 2020
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra commissioned composer-conductor José Luis Domínguez to write Gratias Tibi for physically distanced orchestra and choir. This composition was intended to express gratitude to frontline workers who responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was premiered by the NJSO and Montclair State University Singers on YouTube in June 2020.
Scores for orchestra and choir
DF Gratias Tibi, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_138
Oral history
DF Gratias Tibi, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2022_025
Video of performance
Douglas, Dave
DF When We are Together Again, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2022_019
"When We Are Together Again" is a jazz work composed by American trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas with lyrics by Fay Victor and Camila Meza on the 2020 album Overcome from the Greenleaf Music label. The song was composed and recorded remotely during coronavirus quarantine by vocalist Fay Victor, vocalist and guitarist Camila Meza, bassist Jorge Roeder, and drummer Rudy Royston.
Lead sheet; sketches; audio
Dusman, Linda
BOX 2 Corona Bagatelles, 2021
Premiered by the Duo des Alpes as part of the Cello Autumn Festival in Unna, Germany on August 13, 2021. The five-movement composition is a musical cryptogram of the amino acids that comprise the SARS-coV-2 spike protein.
Score for cello and piano; sketches; notes
DF Corona Bagatelles, 2021
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2023_030
Score; parts; audio; correspondence; research; programs; clipping
DF Corona Bagatelles, 2021
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2023_100
Written history
Esmail, Reena and Amy Fogerson
DF Quarantine Madrigals, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_139
Written by composer Reena Esmail and lyricist Amy Fogerson, Quarantine Madrigals is a set of short, two-minute madrigals inspired by isolation of choral singers during the pandemic. The work is designed to be sung by a single vocalist of any voice type recording the parts over themselves. It was commissioned by the choral ensemble Conspirare and exists in two versions: one vocalist or choir. One-hundred percent of the revenue from score purchases through May 2021 were donated to the CDC's Crush Covid Campaign.
Audio and video demos
DF Quarantine Madrigals, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2022_017
Scores for choir; sketches; notes; donation receipt; file directory
Folds, Ben
DF Madscrollers Theme, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_086
Ben Folds traveled to Sydney, Australia, at the beginning of March 2020 to play a series of shows with orchestras across the country. Due to the pandemic and restricted travel, he made the decision to stay in Australia for the foreseeable future. Folds procured an apartment, sourced equipment throughout the city, and started broadcasting a series of livestream performances under the title Apartment Requests . Folds wrote a theme song to formalize the livestreams; the files included are the various iterations of the "Madscrollers Theme."
Audio; oral history
Gibbard, Ben
BOX 1 Life in Quarantine, 2020
Gibbard, also known as the frontman for Death Cab for Cutie, first premiered the song online through Seattle newspaper The Stranger before releasing the official version, which he recorded at home. Proceeds from the song benefitted relief organizations in the Seattle area.
Holograph lyric sheet
DF Life in Quarantine, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_105
Oral history
Giroux, Julie
see also Frank Ticheli
DF Miscellaneous works, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_055
As a member of the Creative Repertoire Initative (CRI) founded by Frank Ticheli, Giroux wrote seven adaptable works for concert band.
Scores for adaptable band
Contents:
  • The Bonsai Tree
  • I'll Be Home A'fore Ye
  • Nihonbashi
  • One Life Beautiful
  • Opa
  • Our Cast Aways
  • Time to Dance
London, Frank, Hajnal Pivnick, and Dorian Wallace
DF For Our Courageous Workers, 2020
This city-wide symphonic fanfare premiered April 29, 2020 in New York City was conceived by London, Havnick, and Wallace to honor front-line workers. Musicians of every level and all people of New York City were invited to take part in the performance.
Score; flyer; text file with video link; press
Potter, Chris
BOX 1 There Is a Tide, 2020
There Is a Tide is an instrumental response to the societal challenges and emotional upheaval brought about by the pandemic. It is a commentary on the importance of community, leadership, and support for the vulnerable in troubled times, as well as a strong statement about our conflicted relationship with our environment and the difficulty of coping with fear and uncertainty. Chris Potter composed and recorded the album in six weeks from the confines of his home studio and peformed all the instrumental parts himself (piano, keyboards, electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, drums, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, alto flute, percussion, samples and saxophones).
Holograph bass lines
DF There Is a Tide, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2022_071
Sibelius and Pro Tools files for all tracks; photographs from recording sessions; drawings of waves
Shaw, Jaleel
DF Echoes, 2021
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2023_017
Jazz saxophonist and bandleader Jaleel Shaw released his album Echoes in August 2021. The tracks on Echoes represent his reflections on world events, especially the pandemic and violence against Black Americans, as well as historic events, such as the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre. In the oral history, Shaw speaks about the creation of the album and in depth about the pandemic tracks “Silence” and “Isolation.”
Oral history; auto text transcription
DF Silkroad Artist Response, 2020
DIGITAL ID: PACR_MUS_2021_113
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