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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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work by Daniel Elder, 365, is a · Search the job pool that is currently open.
heart-wrenching foray against gun Jobs posted to our career center are
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aphoristic yet edgy piece, an eerie
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Composer Adam Schoenberg’s
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excerpts from the Holocaust mem- region or job function (e.g., Artistic Director,
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lenges the ensemble in many ways,
yet the choir performs the moving

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