What Do You Want?

Hola, Peeps! Here are a few details about this piece. Enjoy and let me know if there is any mistake or if you want to talk about a different version for your choir.

The ones for the conductor:

Duration: Free

Voicing/Instrumentation: Open Voicing

Available Versions: Any

Language: English

Premiere: C4 Remote Livestream #5: Restricted Movement

Listen/ See the Score: 

The ones for your the program:

Program Notes: What do you want? is a journey. I am a composer who writes music. But to write these pieces, I often ask myself: What do I want to say? What or who do I want to understand more?

In 2020, I saw how this question haunted me. It was not an easy path to go through but with help, I dared to ask myself. I didn't know the answers until I ask this question several times. I am still in this process, getting awesome and crazy answers, like creating this piece.

WDYW is a piece for singers to explore the act of saying what is on their minds. I believe that once they go through the rehearsal or performance of this piece, each person will have a realization or feel more passionately about something they already knew. If we are brave enough to speak up and say what we want, we will ultimately hear it ourselves (plus, it helps that this piece forms a dense texture so not all the verbs, phrases, wishes, thoughts will be heard).

The only rule I hope for this piece is that sound never stops until the end, where singers will ask the question once more to keep the thought rolling until the next performance (which could be by the same choir or an entirely new part of the world). I hope this piece teaches us more about ourselves and the people around us. I am, after all, in choral music because of the connection with others.

Author: Carlos Cordero

Text: I want to (verb)
I want to (phrase)
I want to (thought)
I want to (wish)
I want to (longer phrase) I want to (full phrase)
I want to (action)
I want to (verb) What do you want?

Other awesome details we tell people 🙂

Year of Composition: Free

Awards:

More Performances!

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