Prairie Bound, for Choir (2016) [Score-Video]

Stuart Beatch - Prairie Bound for SSSAAATTTBBB choir, a cappella (2016)
Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Director: Michael Zaugg
Live recording from the first performance in June 2017
This piece is based on a short poem by the nineteenth-century poet Pauline Johnson, which describes the promise of the Canadian landscape to settlers, and the power of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In my setting, Johnson's text cuts through with incredibly dense and lush chords, while the train is personified though a constant syllabic motor, driving the music forward with insistent repetition.
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