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Jocelyn Hagen

Jocelyn Hagen composes music that has been described as “simply magical” (Fanfare Magazine) and “dramatic and deeply moving” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul). She is a pioneer in the field of composition, pushing the expectations of musicians and audiences with large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, opera, and publishing. Her first forays into composition were via...

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Crown of Weeds (Vocal/Piano)

Jocelyn Hagen

Text painting abounds in this work with newly commissioned poetry by Julia Klatt Singer, after Shakespeare’s Ophelia.

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SATB, woodwind quintet
VOCAl/PIANO REDUCTION

Jocelyn Hagen composed this work as a response piece to her a cappella mixed choir work “Ophelia.” The intertwining lines played by the woodwind quintet illustrate the tangled weeds, and the vocal lines float over the top, just like Ophelia’s lifeless form.

Composer’s Notes

Eventually this work will be a part of a set along with my other a cappella work Ophelia. If you’d like to consider commissioning a movement of this larger work, or the rest of the four movements, please contact me.

– Jocelyn Hagen

Text

What is love
If it goes untouched, unspoiled?
If in words declared, and then denied–
Does it make Love less than love?
 
Into the river sails Ophelia
In her crown of weeds. Water
Water carries her onward,
this heavenly creature.
Water, water all that is 
within and without. 
For what is life
without love? 
What is Ophelia
without hers?

– Julia Klatt Singer

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