HCP 30 Sarah Rimkus on How to find texts to set to choral music (Part 2)
Dr. Sarah Rimkus has an incredible career in the choral arts from winning tons of competitions to studying with Morten Lauridsen, Phillip Cook, and Paul Mealor. In this episode, we get to discuss the thing that most programs don’t teach you: Finding texts and working with texts to set to choral music. Her experience in finding and curating texts, from the research process to selection and setting.
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In this episode, you will learn:
- Sarah’s collaboration with Dana Gioia and the pieces they’ve created together
- The process of collaborating with a living poet
- How Sarah decided to reach out to other artists for collaboration
- The important lesson that Sarah learned through exploration and finding texts and sources for her piece
- Why it is good to invest time into selecting the right text for writing a new piece
- To find ideas that one is strongly connected to
- The commission from the Glasgow School of Art Choir in conjunction with the Glasgow Women’s Library
- The Angel With The Broken Wing
- Performed by Ensemble Companio, Erik Peregrine Conductor
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- Where do you find your texts?
Links mentioned in the show:
- Sarah Rimkus Website
- See-a-dot Music Publishing: Sarah Rimkus Profile
- MusicSpoke – Sarah Rimkus Profile
- Dana Gioia Website
- https://www.abdn.ac.uk/music/people/sarah-rimkus-528.php
- https://www.abdn.ac.uk/music/
- https://music.usc.edu/departments/classical-performance-studies/comp/
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