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Legacy (Practice Tracks)
A bridge is more than a structure–it is an act of connection.
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Legacy
Download audio practice tracks for Sandra Peter’s “Legacy” for SATB choir and piano.
Includes full access for 1-50 singers. These tracks are sold in batches of 50, so please round up the number of singers in your group to the nearest multiple of 50. Example: 42 singers = Qty. of 50 in your cart.
Each set includes 14 audio tracks:
8 tracks with each of these voice parts dominant
SI, SII, AI, AII, TI, TII, BI, BII
4 tracks with each of these voice parts muted
S, A, T, B
1 track with all voices balanced (SATB)
1 track with piano ONLY
The learning tracks were created by Emily Drum Music.
Important licensing & purchasing terms: The purchase of this resource allows your choral organization to distribute it to your singers and staff for their own learning at any time, but not to be duplicated, edited in any way, and/or shared beyond the organization.
This reflective and uplifting concert work celebrates connection across distance, inviting us to meet one another with generosity and recognize the transformative power of reaching beyond ourselves. Through themes of friendship, hope, and reconciliation, the piece offers rich food for thought as well as discussion.
Composer’s Notes
My journey with Legacy began after seeing Brooklyn’s Bridge, a new musical sponsored, in part, by the Dr. Philips Center in Orlando, Florida. It focuses on Emily Roebling, an engineer who guided several years of work on the bridge after her husband, Washington (credited as chief engineer of the project) became ill from caisson disease. The show piqued my interest, so I began reading David McCullough’s The Great Bridge, which chronicles the design and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge (1867-1883), considered to be a symbol of innovation and progress. The preface includes this excerpt from Montgomery Schuyler’s article, “The Bridge as a Monument,” published in Harper’s Weekly (May 24, 1883):
“It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.”
Schuyler’s reflection stopped me in my tracks. That’s it. This is what “it” is about. Building bridges. Making connections. Being (or at least trying to be…) selfless. The quote sums up my personal mission statement and what I’ve hoped to impart to students all along the way. I immediately wrote out the text, thinking about the rhythmic flow of the words, and started setting it to music. My focus was to create a melody, supported by piano accompaniment. The SATB texture was added later, so that an ensemble could think about and express these ideas together.
-Sandra Peter
Text
“It so happens that the work which is likely to become our most durable monument
and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity,
is a work of bare utility;
not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.”
-(Mongomery Schuyler, in Harper’s Weekly, May 24, 1883; an excerpt from his article “The Bridge as a Monument,” written on the occasion of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.)
Travel far. Reach with open arms.
Make a true connection there, where’er you find yourself.
On the road, wear a smile. Meet a friend.
Share a meal. Hearts will mend, they’ll mend.
The miracle of time will change your life again and again.
See the good before you; see it there.
Build a bridge, strong and true. Make it last.
Hold fast to the voice in you: “Reach out. Build a bridge.”
-(Sandra Peter, DeBary, FL, 2025)
$1.00 per set
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