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PROJECT : ENCORE NEWS PROJECT : ENCORE™ is an online catalog of post-premiere, new
PROJECT : ENCORE NEWS

choral music, reviewed and endorsed by an international panel of
prominent conductors.

Four times each year, P:E adds newly-accepted scores into its
catalog. Score submission deadlines are the 15th of January,
April, July and October.

JOSEPH ECKMAN (new to PROJECT : ENCORE)

Hope is the thing with feathers
• SSATB; a cappella; English (Emily Dickinson)
• 4’ 29’. Musical reflection of the poetic metaphor of the bird (hope) within the soul
that stays with one regardless of circumstance. 314 (the number of the Dickinson poem,
serves as a motif. Dissonant clusters—storms in life; Bb as the constant. Stunning tone
poem in musical poetry. Solid HS choir, and above.
(ProjectEncore.org/joseph-eckman)

CHRISTOPHER J. HOH

Hallelujah, I Been Down Into the Sea

• SATB; a cappella; English (African American Spiritual)
• 3’ 30”. Based on a lively, little-known spiritual; suitable for a baptism or general use.
Typical verse-refrain alternation, each refrain intensifying with additional imitative
movement. Lively and rhythmic with very minimal SA divisi (none for TB). Strong
concert closer for HS level and above!
(ProjectEncore.orgchristopher-j-hoh)

JOHN MUEHLEISEN
Non si levava (after Monteverdi)

• SATB divisi; a cappella; Italian (Torquato Tasso)
• 7’ 15”. An impressionistic portrait of two lovers waking at dawn after a blissful night,
soon to be parted. A reimagining of the first of Monteverdi’s Madrigals in Book Two,
even referencing some of Monteverdi’s material. Lush, romantic writing, filled with the
the sweetness and longing of the poetry itself. Collegiate and above.
(ProjectEncore.org/john-muehleisen)

JOHN ROMMEREIM

Vox dilecti mei
• SATB divisi; string quartet, harp or piano; Latin (Song of Solomon 2:8)
• 4’ 17”. The third movement of Convivencia, a six-movement work based on love poetry
from the three Abrahamic religious traditions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—seeking
to find common ground among them. Sweeping lines contrast with an almost breathless
sense of ecstacy. Beautiful conceptually and musically. College and above.
(ProjectEncore.org/john-rommereim)

DEBORAH SIMPKIN KING, PHD.
Conductor
P:E Director and Founder
DeborahSKing.com