Jeremy Gill http://www.jeremytgill.com/composer Composer Sat, 25 May 2013 20:16:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 somewhere i have never travelled (1993) http://www.jeremytgill.com/composer/somewhere-i-have-never-travelled-1993/ http://www.jeremytgill.com/composer/somewhere-i-have-never-travelled-1993/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:42:24 +0000 jeremytgill http://jeremytgill.dreamhosters.com/composer/?p=3059 somewhere i have never travelled was premiered by Jason Smith, Christy Allan, and students at the Eastman School of Music, Jeremy Gill, conducting at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

Scored for: baritone, horn in f, strings

Text by: E. E. Cummings

Duration: 6 minutes

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Scored for: SATB choir and viola (or English horn)

Text by: Charles Dickens (adapted by Jeremy Gill)

Duration: 6 minutes

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Scored for: soprano, oboe, cello, and piano

Text by: E. E. Cummings

Duration: 3 minutes

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Martha Elliott, soprano; Network for New Music Ensemble

Dunn Songs was commissioned by Network for New Music and premiered by Martha Elliott and the Network for New Music Ensemble, Jan Krzywicki, conducting at West Chester University’s Swope Hall in West Chester, PA on 19 March 2003.

Scored for: soprano, flute, viola, cello, piano

Texts by: Stephen Dunn

Duration: 10 minutes

Contents:

I. The house was quiet (after Schubert)

II. Circular

]]> http://www.jeremytgill.com/composer/dunn-songs-2003/feed/ 0 In Paradisum (if there are any heavens) (2007) http://www.jeremytgill.com/composer/in-paradisum-if-there-are-any-heavens-2007/ http://www.jeremytgill.com/composer/in-paradisum-if-there-are-any-heavens-2007/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:26:25 +0000 jeremytgill http://jeremytgill.dreamhosters.com/composer/?p=3050 In Paradisum (if there are any heavens) was premiered by the Eakins Vocal Consort, Tim Ribchester, directing at St. Francis DeSales Church in Philadelphia, PA on 9 November 2007.

Scored for: SATB choir

Text by: E. E. Cummings

Duration: 5 minutes

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Daniel Lickteig, baritone; Mimi Stillman, piccolo; Hirono Oka, violin; Jeremy Gill, piano

Dreamland was premiered by Daniel Lickteig and members of the Dolce Suono Ensemble (Mimi Stillman, Hirono Oka, and Jeremy Gill) at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA on 16 April 2008.

Scored for: baritone, piccolo, violin, piano

Text by: Edgar Allen Poe (adapted by Jeremy Gill)

Duration: 6 minutes

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Donna Morein, mezzo-soprano; Charles Abramovic, piano

Ode was commissioned by Marshall Levine, Harriet Potashnick Levine, and the Dolce Suono Ensemble and was premiered by Donna Morein and the Dolce Suono Trio (Mimi Stillman, Yumi Kendall, and Charles Abramovic) at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA on 27 February 2009.

Scored for: mezzo-soprano, flute (doubling piccolo), cello, and piano

Texts by: John Keats, Dylan Thomas, Pindar, Oscar Wilde, Paul Rochberg, William Wordsworth, and Mesomedes

Duration: 21 minutes

Contents:

I. Seikilos

II. Dithyramb

III. Helas!

IV. Paean

V. Epitaph

VI. Hymn

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Jonathan Hays, baritone; Jeremy Gill, piano

Helian was premiered by Maren Montalbano Brehm and Jeremy Gill at St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia, PA on 20 March 2010 and recorded by Jonathan Hays and Jeremy Gill for release on Albany Records, 2011.

Scored for: baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and piano

Text by: Georg Trakl

Duration: 37 minutes

Contents:

I. Sommer

1. In den einsamen Stunden

2. Abends auf der Terrasse

II. Herbst

3. Wenn es Herbst geworden ist

4. In kahlen Gezweigen

5. Gewaltig ist das Schweigen

6. Leise und harmonisch

III. Winter

7. Zur Vesper

8. Erschütternd ist der Untergang

9. Die Schwestern

10. O ihr Psalmen

IV. Frühling

11. Ein erhabenes Schicksal

12. In schwarzen Wassern

13. Lasset das Lied auch des Knaben gedenken

14. An den Wänden

15. Dem Teppich entsteigt Gebein

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Sarah Wolfson, soprano; Renate Rohlfing, piano

3 Songs About Words was commissioned by Concert Artists Guild through a gift of Lucy Miller Murray and was premiered by Sarah Wolfson and Renate Rohlfing at Harrisburg Area Community College’s Rose Lehrman Arts Center in Harrisburg, PA on 16 May 2012.

Scored for: soprano and piano

Texts by: Lucy Miller Murray

Duration: 11 minutes

Contents:

1. Words

2. On Hearing a Very Famous Man Speak Profoundly

3. Please Take My Words

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Scored for: SSATBB choir

Text by: Blaise Pascal

Duration: 3.5 minutes

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