Good Morning (SATB)

for SATB a cappella choir

“Good Morning” sets the text of a children’s poem in which a child asks the sun where it goes every night. Composer Tara Mack has fond memories of her mother reciting the poem to her as a child, as well as reciting it to her own children. The piece evokes a child’s understanding of and curiosity about the world and hopefully reminds the listener of that moment in our lives when we imagined it was possible to have a conversation with the sun.

“Exquisitely scored…[Good Morning] wrapped a child’s poem in a warm bath of primary colors and a tugging nostalgia for times gone by.”
– Musical America Worldwide

Tara Mack has sung in classical choirs for many years and is currently a soprano in the London Oriana Choir. In 2019, inspired by the Oriana’s five-year project to promote women composers, she began doing some choral composition of her own.

Since then she has been busy writing, studying and encouraging other choir members to write music. She has been performed and commissioned in both the US and the UK. In 2023 she was selected as a composition fellow for the Choral Arts Initiative’s PREMIERE|Project Festival, and she has been commissioned to write for the New York City Master Chorale and the Pembroke College Chapel Choir under the direction of Anna Lapwood.

By day Tara works for organizations committed to social justice. As the first Director of the Education for Liberation Network, she nurtured its growth into a national network that connected hundreds of teachers, activists, young people and parents reimagining education as a tool for the liberation of marginalized communities. She is currently Director of Programmes at Pembroke House, a community center in London.

Tara enjoys setting texts that reflect her political values, her African American culture and her experiences as a mother.