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        Valley. The choir epitomizes blend,   work without becoming overly va-  Claude Debussy’s  Salut Printemps,
        diction and intonation in this re-  pid. The third movement is as-   the commissioned  Here I Stand by
        cording—their fi rst.               toundingly beautiful and moving.   composer Karen Linford, and

           The  first two works on the re-    The tender nuances delicately   PinkZebra’s  Sing. The recording
        cording, the contemporary stan-    achieved by the voices of the choir   concludes with Andrea Ramsey’s
        dards Ēriks Ešenvald’s Only In Sleep  truly shine in Bob Chilcott’s  Like   poignant Grow Little Tree.
        and Ola Gjeilo’s  Ave Generosa  each  A Singing Bird. The composer uses   iSing Silicon Valley girlchoir has
        demonstrate the choir’s exhilarat-  an amalgam of texts from Christi-  made a monumental contribution
        ing tonal purity and accuracy. It is   na Rossetti and Robert Burns and   to the art of the treble choir. This
        blatantly apparent that much has   then molds the lyrics into a won-  is a prodigious recording that con-
        been accomplished by the careful   derful composition. This is a vivid   tains several wonderful additions to
        attention to detail by the ensemble’s   example of how beautiful children’s   the repertoire.
        directors. These performances are   choirs can be.
        dynamic.                             Other selections, all remarkably   Alan Denney
           Daniel Elder’s rhythmically ex-  beautiful in their own right, include   Estes Park, CO
        plosive In Your Light utilizes the poet-  Sarah Quartel’s  The Bird’s Lullaby,
        ic text of thirteenth-century Persian
        poet, Rumi. The work was commis-
        sioned by the choir in 2019 and is
        an energetic addition to treble choir
        literature. The ensemble’s perfor-
        mance demonstrates their accura-
        cy of pitch and dynamic contrast.               acda.careerwebsite.com/
        As Elder writes, the work “explores
        one of the most joyful of Rumi’s
        poems and expresses it musically in
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        sy.”

           A    second     commissioned                     to find choral professionals.
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        violence. The composition is an                                                         supplemented with related music positions
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           Composer Adam Schoenberg’s
        haunting  Never Shall I Forget is a                                                ·  Create a job alert to notify you when
        three-movement work that utilizes                                                       jobs are posted in a particular geographic
        excerpts from the Holocaust mem-                                                        region or job function  (e.g., Artistic Director,
        oir of Elie Wiesel. The piece is writ-                                      High School Music/ Choir Teacher)
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        become standard repertoire for tre-                                        potential employers can view  it  (or you can
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        lenges the ensemble in many ways,
        yet the choir performs the moving


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