Thank you to North Star Music for including two songs in their “Modern Music for New Singers” editions: “Orpheus” in the mezzo-soprano vol. 1 book & “The Giver of Stars” in the baritone vol. 1 book. These are robust anthologies (eight, so far, and counting!). (Orpheus was written for the Governor’s School for the Arts
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The Giver of Stars a few years later
I wrote “The Giver of Stars” at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2020, just on the eve of pandemic shutdowns and disruptions, confusion and the pervasive smell of hand sanitizer. The text by Amy Lowell, could be read on two levels: a prayer of supplication, and/or an allegorical love poem. Being only one
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