SATB divisi, a cappella
My only piece written without a commission or imminent performance, I wrote this setting while studying composition at LSU. The LSU A Cappella Choir subsequently performed this work. Continue reading “Bright Star”
Category: High School
In the Bleak Midwinter
SATB divisi, violin, piano
Written for the Taylor Festival Choir in 2005. The opening chords serve as a musical illustration of a cold, snow-glistened wintry landscape. The melody, clearly inspired by famous settings of this text by Gustav Holst and Harold Darke, makes its first appearance amidst a cascading ostinato in the upper voices; the climax of the arch form occurs as the “cherubim and seraphim throng the air.” Continue reading “In the Bleak Midwinter”
I Dwell in Possibility
TTBB, piano
Written for the Pacific Lutheran University Men’s Chorus performance at the NW NAfME Conference in February 2011, and dedicated to my father, Edward Galante, on his 60th birthday. Continue reading “I Dwell in Possibility”
Sleep, My Love
SATB divisi, a cappella
Commissioned by Gar-Field High School in Fall 2005 for their debut performance in Carnegie Hall. I selected the Keats poetry at the request of their conductor, Douglas Burney, to be a thematic set with Eric Whitacre’s Sleep. Continue reading “Sleep, My Love”