Lake for chamber singers (S,S,M.S.,T,Ba,B)

$20.00

Length: 9:50 approx.

Difficulty: Advanced

Reference recording below.

There is something very human about the need to understand the world through cycles. Some cycles are natural, like the change in seasons or the circadian rhythms that govern our sleep patterns.

Others are imposed by people, like musical patterns, social cycles or the growth and harvest of crops. Cycles explain birth, life and death, giving order to what otherwise might seem like chaos, through comforting inevitability.

Lake examines life cycles and their role in human connection. Based Claire Nashar's twofold elegy for a loved one and for a degrading natural environment, Lake uses the decay of natural ecosystems as a lens for navigating human loss. Macro and micro worlds become intertwined: creatures and organisms bubble, froth and decompose against intimate words of familial love.

Through this enmeshment, deeply human emotions find their contrast in cool waters. These worlds collided, a new phase in the lifecycle begins.

Length: 9:50 approx.

Difficulty: Advanced

Reference recording below.

There is something very human about the need to understand the world through cycles. Some cycles are natural, like the change in seasons or the circadian rhythms that govern our sleep patterns.

Through this enmeshment, deeply human emotions find their contrast in cool waters. These worlds collided, a new phase in the lifecycle begins.