Choral SSAA choir
SKU:
CF.CM9616
Composed by
John Ratledge. Fold. Jbc.
Performance. 12 pages.
Duration 4 minutes, 2
seconds. Carl Fischer
Music #CM9616. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.CM9616).
ISBN
9781491156711. UPC:
680160915255. 6.875 x
10.5 inches. Key: C
major. English. Thomas
Troeger.
This SSAA
work, originally written
for SATB voices
celebrates the tenth
anniversary of the
Masterworks Community
Chorale in Newnan,
Georgia. The
inspirational text is
Somewhere I Have Never
Traveled, a text by the
Yale Theologian, Thomas
Troeger. Somewhere I Have
Never Traveled has
potential for building
tone and creating a
panorama of colors, while
at the same time creating
emotional soundscapes,
all through a delightful
text that creates a
dreamlike
innocence.
It has been
a joy to re-voice this
original SATB composition
for SSAA voices and to
collaborate with Heather
Orr at Montgomery High
School. In July 2014, my
dear friend Kathy Bizarth
commissioned me to
compose a new work
celebrating the tenth
anniversary of the
Masterworks Community
Chorale in Newnan,
Georgia. It was in
September when we agreed
on the inspirational
text, Somewhere I Have
Never Traveled, a text by
the Yale Theologian,
Thomas Troeger. I moved
to Italy in January for a
sabbatical, and in
February, I spent four
days composing the piece
at the Palazzo Bassi
Brugnatelli, a dear
friend's villa in
Robbiate, Italy.
Interestingly enough, the
middle part of the piece
(mm. 30-39) and end of
the piece came first (mm.
40-62). Completed in
Conegliano in late
February, this
composition is very
special to me as it was
the first composition I
wrote after my mother
died, and it was also
composed for a dear
friend. I have a profound
connection to what I hope
will be a deeply
inspirational composition
to those who sing it.
Somewhere I Have Never
Traveled has real
potential for building
tone and creating a
panorama of colors, while
at the same time creating
emotional soundscapes,
all through a delightful
text that creates a
dreamlike innocence.
Somewhere I have never
traveled is the place I
want to be... (Me
too.).
It has been a
joy to re-voice this
original SATB composition
for SSAA voices and to
collaborate with Heather
Orr at Montgomery High
School. In July 2014, my
dear friend Kathy Bizarth
commissioned me to
compose a new work
celebrating the tenth
anniversary of the
Masterworks Community
Chorale in Newnan,
Georgia. It was in
September when we agreed
on the inspirational
text, Somewhere I Have
Never Traveled, a text by
the Yale Theologian,
Thomas Troeger. I moved
to Italy in January for a
sabbatical, and in
February, I spent four
days composing the piece
at the Palazzo Bassi
Brugnatelli, a dear
friend’s villa in
Robbiate, Italy.
Interestingly enough, the
middle part of the piece
(mm. 30-39) and end of
the piece came first (mm.
40-62). Completed in
Conegliano in late
February, this
composition is very
special to me as it was
the first composition I
wrote after my mother
died, and it was also
composed for a dear
friend. I have a profound
connection to what I hope
will be a deeply
inspirational composition
to those who sing
it.Somewhere I Have Never
Traveled has real
potential for building
tone and creating a
panorama of colors, while
at the same time creating
emotional soundscapes,
all through a delightful
text that creates a
dreamlike
innocence.Somewhere I
have never traveled is
the place I want to be...
(Me too.).