As We Are Changed

Commission year: 
2019
Grant recipient: 
Commonwealth Chorale

Newtonville, MA

For chorus, chamber orchestra and soloist, in honor of David Carrier's 40th anniversary as Music Director of Commonwealth Chorale. Recorded on As We Are Changed (2021).

See also the Commonwealth Chorale website and Carson Cooman's website.

Libretto by Euan Tait.

Our world and our lives are transformational and in constant transformation, and this work is the music of those transformations. The earth we live on does not stay still but evolves and changes; our lives are changed through our own personal struggles, through meetings with those whose difference from us becomes a teacher, with sudden catalytic events, and from the daily, determined creativity of love working and spreading outwards from our humanity.

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Premiere date: 
Saturday, November 16, 2019